Lambert, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lambert, 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 Lambert 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 Lambert — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lambert — the short answer
Lambert, Mississippi: USDA zone 8a, about 265 days between hard freezes, across 541 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 1
- Quitman County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- Quitman County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~265
- Quitman County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 541 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 Quitman County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Lambert's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lambert's 265-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lambert
Each reading below is measured for Lambert itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLambert runs about 265 days between hard freezes (read from Quitman County, the closest normal to Lambert) — 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
MeasuredLambert 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 Lambert is in
Lambert sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lambert's own centroid rather than borrowed from Quitman County.
What Grows in Lambert
Every plant below cleared Lambert's own zone 8a and its 265-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lambert?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Lambert
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lambert. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Illinois Central RailroadUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Westside Auto Parts IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Pastor Williams Fellowship HallUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- Riverside GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Gurley's LambertUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Russell White GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- White's Grocery StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Lambert Auto PartsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- 119H0025 QUITMANNitrate · 1700 ft
- GARAN INCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- Frank Logan JrUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Sam WheelerUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lambert'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 Lambert.
Total Sites
77
within ~10 miles of Lambert
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lambert
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lambert
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lambert, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 30 sites within ~10 miles of Lambert. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Lambert
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 Lambert average
Your land is one point inside Lambert
Everything above resolves to Lambert as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 541 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Quitman 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 Lambert Average
Lambert Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Lambert
- ●One soil character for all of Lambert
- ●Frost dates read at Lambert's scale: Mar 1 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lambert's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lambert
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lambert, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lambert averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lambert — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lambert average
How we know this about Lambert
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 Quitman 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 Lambert
When does frost risk typically end in Lambert?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lambert typically lands around Mar 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Lambert?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lambert typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 265 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lambert?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lambert sees about 265 frost-free days — roughly Mar 1 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 22 to Nov 7, about 230 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lambert?
The federal record around Lambert shows 77 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (43), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Lambert?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lambert's scale — its 8a band and its 265-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lambert'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 Lambert’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Lambert's own scale — the 541 acres it covers and 77 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lambert's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 77 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lambert, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lambert's boundary and the 541 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~265-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lambert's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Lambert has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Quitman County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lambert's 541 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Quitman County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Quitman County
- The growing challenges every Mississippi grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Mississippi
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Quitman County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lambert's 541 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lambert you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 541 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Lambert-wide figureread your own land →
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