Askewville, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Askewville, 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 Askewville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Askewville — the short answer
Askewville, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 246 days between hard freezes, across 379 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~246
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 379 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 Askewville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Askewville's 246-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Askewville
Each reading below is measured for Askewville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAskewville runs about 246 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
MeasuredAskewville 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 Askewville is in
Askewville sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Askewville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bertie County.
What Grows in Askewville
Every plant below cleared Askewville's own zone 8a and its 246-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Askewville?
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 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 19 — 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.
Documented around Askewville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Askewville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 46 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Askewville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Askewville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- COUNTY FARMERS SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- HARRISON GROCERY, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- OTIS MITCHELL GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- D.G. WHITE SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- PHILLIP WHITE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- WHITE`S BODY SHOPBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- J & A'S GRILL AND GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- JACOCKS BLDG SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- ROBERSON TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- WINDSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- WHITE'S X GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- DUCK THRUUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Askewville'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 Askewville.
Total Sites
135
within ~10 miles of Askewville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Askewville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Askewville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Askewville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 115 sites within ~10 miles of Askewville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Askewville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Askewville
Everything above resolves to Askewville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 379 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 Askewville Average
Askewville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Askewville
- ●One soil character for all of Askewville
- ●Frost dates read at Askewville's scale: Mar 18 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Askewville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Askewville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Askewville, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Askewville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Askewville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Askewville average
How we know this about Askewville
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 Askewville’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 Askewville
When does frost risk typically end in Askewville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Askewville typically lands around Mar 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Askewville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Askewville typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 246 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Askewville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Askewville sees about 246 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Nov 5, about 211 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Askewville?
The federal record around Askewville shows 135 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (115), 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 Askewville?
From about Oct 20 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Askewville's scale — its 8a band and its 246-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Askewville'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 Askewville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Askewville's own scale — its own ~246-day season between 28°F freezes, the 379 acres it covers and 135 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Askewville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Askewville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Nov 19 and the ~246-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 135 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Askewville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Askewville's boundary and the 379 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~246-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Askewville's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Askewville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Askewville's 379 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bertie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bertie County
- The growing challenges every North Carolina grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom North Carolina
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Bertie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Askewville's 379 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Askewville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 379 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 Askewville-wide figureread your own land →
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