Ramer, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Ramer, 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 Ramer 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 Ramer — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Ramer — the short answer
Ramer, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 236 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~236
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 1K 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 7b is Ramer's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ramer's 236-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ramer
Each reading below is measured for Ramer itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRamer runs about 236 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
MeasuredRamer sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Ramer is in
Ramer sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ramer's own centroid rather than borrowed from McNairy County.
What Grows in Ramer
Every plant below cleared Ramer's own zone 7b and its 236-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ramer?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Ramer
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ramer. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Ramer GulfUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- Xtra Mart No. 27Underground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- Locks GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- Ramer Ele SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- Ramer One StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- MN:G-024Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- Summers GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Price And JonesUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Mn:F-014Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- Eastview GulfUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- Eastview Quick StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- The JunctionUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ramer'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 Ramer.
Total Sites
110
within ~10 miles of Ramer
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
10 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ramer
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ramer
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ramer, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Ramer — Toxics Release Inventory (10 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (70 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Ramer
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 Ramer average
Your land is one point inside Ramer
Everything above resolves to Ramer as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 city 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 Ramer Average
Ramer Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Ramer
- ●One soil character for all of Ramer
- ●Frost dates read at Ramer's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ramer's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ramer
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ramer, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Ramer averages can't show:
We read public map data around Ramer — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ramer average
How we know this about Ramer
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Ramer’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Ramer
When does frost risk typically end in Ramer?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ramer typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Ramer?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ramer typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 236 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ramer?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ramer sees about 236 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Oct 28, about 201 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ramer?
The federal record around Ramer shows 110 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (70), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Ramer?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ramer's scale — its 7b band and its 236-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ramer'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 Ramer’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Ramer's own scale — its own ~236-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,146 acres it covers and 110 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ramer's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ramer's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 11 and the ~236-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 110 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ramer, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ramer's boundary and the 1,146 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~236-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ramer's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ramer's 1,146 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom McNairy County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom McNairy County
- The growing challenges every Tennessee grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Tennessee
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom McNairy County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ramer's 1,146 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ramer you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,146 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 Ramer-wide figureread your own land →