Walstonburg, North Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Walstonburg, 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 Walstonburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Walstonburg — the short answer
Walstonburg, North Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 255 days between hard freezes, across 260 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~255
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 260 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 Walstonburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Walstonburg's 255-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Walstonburg
Each reading below is measured for Walstonburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWalstonburg runs about 255 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
MeasuredWalstonburg 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 Walstonburg is in
Walstonburg sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Walstonburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Greene County.
What Grows in Walstonburg
Every plant below cleared Walstonburg's own zone 8a and its 255-day season. Each card opens that plant's North Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Walstonburg?
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 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Walstonburg
Survey cells within 31 miles of Walstonburg checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 53 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Walstonburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Walstonburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MOORE'S FIBERGLASS, INC.Brownfields · 700 ft
- FARMVILLE, TOWN OFPFAS · 1300 ft
- GR-007 WALSTONBURGNitrate · 2200 ft
- LEWIS' STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- HARRELLS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- J.R. LEWISUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- DAILS COUNTRY MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- FRANK BARNHILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- J & H MILLING COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- PIE'S KWICK MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- WALSTON'S STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- WITN-TV - TRANSMITTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Walstonburg'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 Walstonburg.
Total Sites
319
within ~10 miles of Walstonburg
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Walstonburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Walstonburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Walstonburg, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Walstonburg — Nitrate (198 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Walstonburg
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 Walstonburg average
Your land is one point inside Walstonburg
Everything above resolves to Walstonburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 260 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 Walstonburg Average
Walstonburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Walstonburg
- ●One soil character for all of Walstonburg
- ●Frost dates read at Walstonburg's scale: Mar 14 to Nov 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Walstonburg's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Walstonburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Walstonburg, North Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Walstonburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Walstonburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Walstonburg average
How we know this about Walstonburg
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 Walstonburg’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 Walstonburg
When does frost risk typically end in Walstonburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Walstonburg typically lands around Mar 14, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Walstonburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Walstonburg typically arrives around Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 10, so the watching starts about Oct 25 — about 255 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Walstonburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Walstonburg sees about 255 frost-free days — roughly Mar 14 through Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 4 to Nov 10, about 220 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Walstonburg?
The federal record around Walstonburg is a meaningful one — 319 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (198), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles 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 Walstonburg?
From about Oct 25 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Walstonburg's scale — its 8a band and its 255-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Walstonburg'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 Walstonburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Walstonburg's own scale — its own ~255-day season between 28°F freezes, the 260 acres it covers and 319 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Walstonburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Walstonburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 14 and Nov 24 and the ~255-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 319 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Walstonburg, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Walstonburg's boundary and the 260 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~255-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Walstonburg's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Walstonburg 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 Walstonburg's 260 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Greene County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Greene 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 Greene County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Walstonburg's 260 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Walstonburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 260 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Walstonburg-wide figureread your own land →