Tarrytown, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Tarrytown, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Tarrytown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Tarrytown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Tarrytown — the short answer
Tarrytown, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 290 days between hard freezes, across 548 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 17
- Montgomery County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 4
- Montgomery County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~290
- Montgomery County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 548 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Montgomery County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Tarrytown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tarrytown's 290-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tarrytown
Each reading below is measured for Tarrytown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsTarrytown runs about 290 days between hard freezes (read from Montgomery County, the closest normal to Tarrytown) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredTarrytown sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Tarrytown is in
Tarrytown sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Tarrytown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Montgomery County.
What Grows in Tarrytown
Every plant below cleared Tarrytown's own zone 8b and its 290-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tarrytown?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Tarrytown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tarrytown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TARRYTOWN TRADING POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- OLD COUNTRY STORE (ABANDONED)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- 25S007Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- TREUTLEN COUNTY BD OF EDUCATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- TREUTLEN PROBATION CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- ZAIDEE CORNER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- GA DOT #10260 TREUTLEN CO MAINTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- GRAHAMS FINER FOODS LLC DBA 221 C STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- 25T001Nitrate · 4.3 mi
- VAL-U-MAXUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- JET FOODS #74Underground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- CIRCLE S FOODMARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tarrytown's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Tarrytown.
Total Sites
75
within ~10 miles of Tarrytown
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tarrytown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tarrytown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tarrytown, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 58 sites within ~10 miles of Tarrytown. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Tarrytown
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tarrytown average
Your land is one point inside Tarrytown
Everything above resolves to Tarrytown as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 548 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Montgomery County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Tarrytown Average
Tarrytown Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Tarrytown
- ●One soil character for all of Tarrytown
- ●Frost dates read at Tarrytown's scale: Feb 17 to Dec 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tarrytown's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tarrytown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tarrytown, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tarrytown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tarrytown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tarrytown average
How we know this about Tarrytown
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Montgomery County’s record, because none resolves here; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Tarrytown
When does frost risk typically end in Tarrytown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tarrytown typically lands around Feb 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Mar 10.
When is the first frost in Tarrytown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tarrytown typically arrives around Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 20, so the watching starts about Nov 4 — about 290 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tarrytown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tarrytown sees about 290 frost-free days — roughly Feb 17 through Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 10 to Nov 20, about 255 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tarrytown?
The federal record around Tarrytown shows 75 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (58), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Tarrytown?
From about Nov 4 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Dec 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Dec 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tarrytown's scale — its 8b band and its 290-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tarrytown's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Tarrytown’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Tarrytown's own scale — the 548 acres it covers and 75 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tarrytown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 75 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tarrytown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tarrytown's boundary and the 548 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~290-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tarrytown's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Tarrytown has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Montgomery County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tarrytown's 548 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Montgomery County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Montgomery County
- The growing challenges every Georgia grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Georgia
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Montgomery County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tarrytown's 548 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tarrytown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 548 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Tarrytown-wide figureread your own land →
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