Potts Camp, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Potts Camp, 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 Potts Camp lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Potts Camp — the short answer
Potts Camp, Mississippi: USDA zone 8a, about 237 days between hard freezes, across 621 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 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~237
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 621 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 Potts Camp's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Potts Camp's 237-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Potts Camp
Each reading below is measured for Potts Camp itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPotts Camp runs about 237 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
MeasuredPotts Camp 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 Potts Camp is in
Potts Camp sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Potts Camp's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Marshall County is mostly Mississippi Valley Loess Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Potts Camp
Every plant below cleared Potts Camp's own zone 8a and its 237-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Potts Camp?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Potts Camp
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Potts Camp. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Pokey's PlaceUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- Abe'sUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Potts Camp Work CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- Corner Quick StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- 093U0001 MARSHALLNitrate · 1300 ft
- Billy SmithUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- 093U0002 MARSHALLNitrate · 1700 ft
- Marshall County SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Dot's Country RestaurantUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Ash AmocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 009N0001 BENTONNitrate · 3.3 mi
- 093T0003 MARSHALLNitrate · 4.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Potts Camp'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 Potts Camp.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Potts Camp
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Potts Camp, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Potts Camp — Nitrate (16 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (26 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Potts Camp
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Your land is one point inside Potts Camp
Everything above resolves to Potts Camp as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 621 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 Potts Camp Average
Potts Camp Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Potts Camp
- ●One soil character for all of Potts Camp
- ●Frost dates read at Potts Camp's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Potts Camp's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Potts Camp
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Potts Camp, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Potts Camp averages can't show:
We read public map data around Potts Camp — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Potts Camp average
How we know this about Potts Camp
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 Potts Camp’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 Potts Camp
When does frost risk typically end in Potts Camp?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Potts Camp 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 Potts Camp?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Potts Camp typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 237 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Potts Camp?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Potts Camp sees about 237 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Oct 26, about 202 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Potts Camp?
The federal record around Potts Camp is light — 42 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (26), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Potts Camp?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Potts Camp's scale — its 8a band and its 237-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Potts Camp'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 Potts Camp’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Potts Camp's own scale — its own ~237-day season between 28°F freezes, the 621 acres it covers and 42 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Potts Camp's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Potts Camp's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 17 and Nov 9 and the ~237-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 42 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Potts Camp, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Potts Camp's boundary and the 621 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~237-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Potts Camp sits in the Southeastern Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Potts Camp's 621 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marshall County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marshall 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 Marshall County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Potts Camp's 621 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Potts Camp you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 621 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 Potts Camp-wide figureread your own land →