Falkland, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Falkland, 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 Falkland lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Falkland — the short answer
Falkland, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 259 days between hard freezes, across 146 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 12
- 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
- ~259
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 146 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 Falkland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Falkland's 259-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Falkland
Each reading below is measured for Falkland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFalkland runs about 259 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
MeasuredFalkland 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 Falkland is in
Falkland sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Falkland's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Pitt County is mostly Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Falkland
Every plant below cleared Falkland's own zone 8a and its 259-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Falkland?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 12 (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 Falkland
Survey cells within 31 miles of Falkland checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 61 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Falkland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Falkland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- E.W. WOOTEN SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- PANCHO'S MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- WOOTEN STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- PI-653 BELL ARTHUR 6Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- BELVOIR HARDWARE, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- BELVOIR CORNER STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- GARRIS MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- ELLIS CAFEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- FOUNTAIN QUARRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- COBBTOWN GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- BULLOCK`S PAINT & BODY SHOPBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- H & H BODY SHOPBrownfields · 4.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Falkland'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 Falkland.
Total Sites
448
within ~10 miles of Falkland
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Falkland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Falkland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Falkland, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 6 sites within ~10 miles of Falkland. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
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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 Falkland
Everything above resolves to Falkland as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 146 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 Falkland Average
Falkland Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Falkland
- ●One soil character for all of Falkland
- ●Frost dates read at Falkland's scale: Mar 12 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Falkland's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Falkland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Falkland, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Falkland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Falkland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Falkland
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 Falkland’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 Falkland
When does frost risk typically end in Falkland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Falkland typically lands around Mar 12, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Falkland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Falkland 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 259 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Falkland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Falkland sees about 259 frost-free days — roughly Mar 12 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 2 to Nov 12, about 224 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Falkland?
The federal record around Falkland is a meaningful one — 448 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (267), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Falkland?
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 Falkland's scale — its 8a band and its 259-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Falkland'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 Falkland’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Falkland's own scale — its own ~259-day season between 28°F freezes, the 146 acres it covers and 448 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Falkland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Falkland's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 12 and Nov 26 and the ~259-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 448 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Falkland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Falkland's boundary and the 146 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~259-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Falkland sits in the Southeastern Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Falkland 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 Falkland's 146 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pitt County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pitt 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 Pitt County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Falkland's 146 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Falkland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 146 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 Falkland-wide figureread your own land →
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