Tyaskin, Maryland, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Tyaskin, 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 Tyaskin lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tyaskin — the short answer
Tyaskin, Maryland: USDA zone 8a, about 254 days between hard freezes, across 910 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~254
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 910 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 Tyaskin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tyaskin's 254-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tyaskin
Each reading below is measured for Tyaskin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTyaskin runs about 254 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredTyaskin 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 Tyaskin is in
Tyaskin sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Tyaskin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wicomico County.
What Grows in Tyaskin
Every plant below cleared Tyaskin's own zone 8a and its 254-day season. Each card opens that plant's Maryland profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tyaskin?
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 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Tyaskin
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Tyaskin, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tyaskin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tyaskin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOUBLE B FARMCAFO · 1400 ft
- HARRY J. WEST IIICAFO · 0.6 mi
- WEST ACRESCAFO · 1.1 mi
- ANTHONY E. BALCERZAK JR./BIG BIVALVECAFO · 1.2 mi
- Cox's Grocery (Arlie Kiser)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- Pace ExxonUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Westside HardwareUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Sandy Hill Family Camp, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- EARL BEARDSLEY FARMCAFO · 3.0 mi
- THURMAN FARMSCAFO · 3.1 mi
- J.B.J. Inc. T/A Wade's Repair ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- WI Dc 32Nitrate · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tyaskin'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 Tyaskin.
Total Sites
70
within ~10 miles of Tyaskin
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tyaskin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tyaskin
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tyaskin, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 31 sites within ~10 miles of Tyaskin. 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.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Tyaskin
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 Tyaskin average
Your land is one point inside Tyaskin
Everything above resolves to Tyaskin as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 910 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 Tyaskin Average
Tyaskin Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Tyaskin
- ●One soil character for all of Tyaskin
- ●Frost dates read at Tyaskin's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tyaskin's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tyaskin
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tyaskin, Maryland — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tyaskin averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tyaskin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tyaskin average
How we know this about Tyaskin
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 Tyaskin’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 Tyaskin
When does frost risk typically end in Tyaskin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tyaskin typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 7.
When is the first frost in Tyaskin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tyaskin typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 254 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tyaskin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tyaskin sees about 254 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Nov 12, about 219 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tyaskin?
The federal record around Tyaskin shows 70 documented sites, mostly CAFO entries (31), the nearest CAFO record about 0.3 miles 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 Tyaskin?
From about Oct 27 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 Nov 26 (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 Nov 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tyaskin's scale — its 8a band and its 254-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tyaskin'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 Tyaskin’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Tyaskin's own scale — its own ~254-day season between 28°F freezes, the 910 acres it covers and 70 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tyaskin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tyaskin's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 17 and Nov 26 and the ~254-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 70 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tyaskin, the closest CAFO record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tyaskin's boundary and the 910 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~254-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tyaskin's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Tyaskinlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tyaskin's 910 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wicomico County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wicomico 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 Wicomico County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tyaskin's 910 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tyaskin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 910 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest CAFO record about 0.3 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 Tyaskin-wide figureread your own land →