Ty Ty, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Ty Ty, 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 Ty Ty lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Ty Ty — the short answer
Ty Ty, Georgia: USDA zone 9a, about 300 days between hard freezes, across 504 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 9
- Tift County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 6
- Tift County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~300
- Tift County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 504 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 Tift County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Ty Ty's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ty Ty's 300-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ty Ty
Each reading below is measured for Ty Ty itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsTy Ty runs about 300 days between hard freezes (read from Tift County, the closest normal to Ty Ty) — 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
MeasuredTy Ty sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Ty Ty is in
Ty Ty sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ty Ty's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tift County.
What Grows in Ty Ty
Every plant below cleared Ty Ty's own zone 9a and its 300-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ty Ty?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 6 — 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 Ty Ty
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ty Ty. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- THE SHACKUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- SAMS TIREUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- ESCO'S FOOD STORE #5Underground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- SHIBA FOOD STORE #3Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- CONTINENTAL SPECIALTY CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- MAGNOLIA PLANTATION INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- TY TYPFAS · 2.6 mi
- PARKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- 16K019Nitrate · 3.8 mi
- WEBBS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- ABRAHAM BALDWIN AGRI. COLLEGEPFAS · 4.1 mi
- 17K066Nitrate · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ty Ty'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 Ty Ty.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ty Ty
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ty Ty
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ty Ty, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Ty Ty — Superfund (6 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (194 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Ty Ty
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Ty Ty
Everything above resolves to Ty Ty as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 504 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Tift County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 city 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 Ty Ty Average
Ty Ty Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Ty Ty
- ●One soil character for all of Ty Ty
- ●Frost dates read at Ty Ty's scale: Feb 9 to Dec 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ty Ty's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ty Ty
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ty Ty, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Ty Ty averages can't show:
We read public map data around Ty Ty — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ty Ty average
How we know this about Ty Ty
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Tift 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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Ty Ty
When does frost risk typically end in Ty Ty?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ty Ty typically lands around Feb 9, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Ty Ty?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ty Ty typically arrives around Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 22, so the watching starts about Nov 6 — about 300 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ty Ty?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ty Ty sees about 300 frost-free days — roughly Feb 9 through Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 2 to Nov 22, about 265 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ty Ty?
The federal record around Ty Ty is a meaningful one — 300 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (194), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Ty Ty?
From about Nov 6 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ty Ty's scale — its 9a band and its 300-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ty Ty'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 Ty Ty’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Ty Ty's own scale — the 504 acres it covers and 300 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ty Ty's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 300 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ty Ty, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ty Ty's boundary and the 504 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~300-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ty Ty's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Ty Ty has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Tift County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ty Ty's 504 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tift County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tift 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 Tift County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ty Ty's 504 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ty Ty you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 504 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 Ty Ty-wide figureread your own land →
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