Turbeville, South Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Turbeville, 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 Turbeville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Turbeville — the short answer
Turbeville, South Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 270 days between hard freezes, across 858 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 3
- Clarendon County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 28
- Clarendon County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~270
- Clarendon County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 858 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 Clarendon County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Turbeville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Turbeville's 270-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Turbeville
Each reading below is measured for Turbeville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsTurbeville runs about 270 days between hard freezes (read from Clarendon County, the closest normal to Turbeville) — 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
MeasuredTurbeville 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 Turbeville is in
Turbeville sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Turbeville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Clarendon County is mostly Southeastern Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Turbeville
Every plant below cleared Turbeville's own zone 8b and its 270-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Turbeville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
Documented around Turbeville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Turbeville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 120 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Turbeville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Turbeville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CLA-19Nitrate · 750 ft
- SPORTSMAN SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- TURBEVILLE EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- BECKYS CAFEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- DENNIS OIL & TIREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- RAY & DONALD COKERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- C E GREENUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- TURBEVILLE TELEPHONE EXCHANGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- MCELVEENS COLONIALUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- COKERS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- COKER BUILDERS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- TURBEVILLE IGA PLUSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Turbeville'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 Turbeville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Turbeville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Turbeville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Turbeville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 69 sites within ~10 miles of Turbeville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Turbeville
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 Turbeville average
Your land is one point inside Turbeville
Everything above resolves to Turbeville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 858 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Clarendon 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 Turbeville Average
Turbeville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Turbeville
- ●One soil character for all of Turbeville
- ●Frost dates read at Turbeville's scale: Mar 3 to Nov 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Turbeville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Turbeville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Turbeville, South Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Turbeville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Turbeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Turbeville average
How we know this about Turbeville
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 Clarendon 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 Turbeville
When does frost risk typically end in Turbeville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Turbeville typically lands around Mar 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Turbeville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Turbeville typically arrives around Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 14, so the watching starts about Oct 29 — about 270 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Turbeville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Turbeville sees about 270 frost-free days — roughly Mar 3 through Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 24 to Nov 14, about 235 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Turbeville?
The federal record around Turbeville shows 78 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (69), the nearest Nitrate 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 Turbeville?
From about Oct 29 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Turbeville's scale — its 8b band and its 270-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Turbeville'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 Turbeville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Turbeville's own scale — the 858 acres it covers and 78 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Turbeville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 78 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Turbeville, the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Turbeville's boundary and the 858 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~270-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Turbeville sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Turbeville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Turbeville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Clarendon County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Turbeville's 858 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clarendon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clarendon County
- The growing challenges every South Carolina grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom South Carolina
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Clarendon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Turbeville's 858 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Turbeville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 858 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Turbeville-wide figureread your own land →
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