Grasonville, Maryland, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Grasonville, 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 Grasonville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Grasonville — the short answer
Grasonville, Maryland: USDA zone 8a, about 270 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~270
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Grasonville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Grasonville's 270-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Grasonville
Each reading below is measured for Grasonville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGrasonville runs about 270 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredGrasonville sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Grasonville is in
Grasonville sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Grasonville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Queen Anne's County.
What Grows in Grasonville
Every plant below cleared Grasonville's own zone 8a and its 270-day season. Each card opens that plant's Maryland profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Grasonville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
Documented around Grasonville
Spotted lanternfly documented 5 miles from Grasonville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Grasonville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Grasonville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SHA Pipe ProjectUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Chief Holdings LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Queenstown Bank Property aka Grasonville MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- This Is ItUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Kent Narrows Limited Partnerhsip Alal Roys PresidentUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Harrison Yacht SalesUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Millers Car Wash & MobilUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Big Red #2064/Former C&L Oil CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Franks Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- M&M Food ExpressUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- QA Ec 91Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- KNSG Station MUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Grasonville'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 Grasonville.
Total Sites
337
within ~10 miles of Grasonville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Grasonville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Grasonville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Grasonville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Grasonville — CAFO (7 sites) and Nitrate (102 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Grasonville
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25+ data sources read at your address, not the Grasonville average
Your land is one point inside Grasonville
Everything above resolves to Grasonville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K acres. 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 Grasonville Average
Grasonville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Grasonville
- ●One soil character for all of Grasonville
- ●Frost dates read at Grasonville's scale: Mar 10 to Dec 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Grasonville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Grasonville
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Three things about your lot that Grasonville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Grasonville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Grasonville average
How we know this about Grasonville
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 Grasonville’s own record; 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 Grasonville
When does frost risk typically end in Grasonville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Grasonville typically lands around Mar 10, 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 31.
When is the first frost in Grasonville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Grasonville typically arrives around Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 21, so the watching starts about Nov 5 — about 270 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Grasonville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Grasonville sees about 270 frost-free days — roughly Mar 10 through Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 31 to Nov 21, about 235 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Grasonville?
The federal record around Grasonville is a meaningful one — 337 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (176), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles 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 Grasonville?
From about Nov 5 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Grasonville's scale — its 8a band and its 270-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Grasonville'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 Grasonville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Grasonville's own scale — its own ~270-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,539 acres it covers and 337 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Grasonville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Grasonville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 10 and Dec 5 and the ~270-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 337 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Grasonville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Grasonville's boundary and the 3,539 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~270-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Grasonville's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Grasonvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Grasonville's 3,539 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Queen Anne's County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Queen Anne's County
- The growing challenges every Maryland grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Maryland
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Queen Anne's County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Grasonville's 3,539 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Grasonville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,539 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles 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 Grasonville-wide figureread your own land →