Tutwiler, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Tutwiler, 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 Tutwiler 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 Tutwiler — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Tutwiler — the short answer
Tutwiler, Mississippi: USDA zone 8b, about 272 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 26
- Tallahatchie County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- Tallahatchie County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~272
- Tallahatchie County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Tallahatchie County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Tutwiler's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tutwiler's 272-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tutwiler
Each reading below is measured for Tutwiler itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsTutwiler runs about 272 days between hard freezes (read from Tallahatchie County, the closest normal to Tutwiler) — 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
MeasuredTutwiler sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Tutwiler is in
Tutwiler sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Tutwiler's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tallahatchie County.
What Grows in Tutwiler
Every plant below cleared Tutwiler's own zone 8b and its 272-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tutwiler?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 25 — 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 Tutwiler
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tutwiler. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Double Dy ExpressUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- J Muse JrUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Double Quick #49Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Nona's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Flying Y Aero IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- 135C0041 TALLAHATCHIENitrate · 0.9 mi
- Acme Frame Products Of MississippiUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- 135H0001 TALLAHATCHIENitrate · 2.6 mi
- 8 Ball #1Underground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- 027O0005 COAHOMANitrate · 4.4 mi
- Berryhill Brothers Pltg CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- 135H0009 TALLAHATCHIENitrate · 4.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tutwiler'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 Tutwiler.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tutwiler
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tutwiler
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tutwiler, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 22 sites within ~10 miles of Tutwiler. 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.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Tutwiler
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 Tutwiler average
Your land is one point inside Tutwiler
Everything above resolves to Tutwiler as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Tallahatchie 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 Tutwiler Average
Tutwiler Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Tutwiler
- ●One soil character for all of Tutwiler
- ●Frost dates read at Tutwiler's scale: Feb 26 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tutwiler's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tutwiler
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tutwiler, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tutwiler averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tutwiler — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tutwiler average
How we know this about Tutwiler
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 Tallahatchie 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 Tutwiler
When does frost risk typically end in Tutwiler?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tutwiler typically lands around Feb 26, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Tutwiler?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tutwiler typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 272 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tutwiler?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tutwiler sees about 272 frost-free days — roughly Feb 26 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 19 to Nov 11, about 237 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tutwiler?
The federal record around Tutwiler shows 54 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (31), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Tutwiler?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tutwiler's scale — its 8b band and its 272-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tutwiler'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 Tutwiler’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Tutwiler's own scale — the 1,772 acres it covers and 54 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tutwiler's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 54 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tutwiler, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tutwiler's boundary and the 1,772 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~272-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tutwiler's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Tutwiler has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Tallahatchie County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tutwiler's 1,772 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tallahatchie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tallahatchie 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 Tallahatchie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tutwiler's 1,772 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tutwiler you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,772 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Tutwiler-wide figureread your own land →
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