Tuckers Crossroads, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Tuckers Crossroads, 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 Tuckers Crossroads lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tuckers Crossroads — the short answer
Tuckers Crossroads, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- 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
- ~232
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Tuckers Crossroads's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tuckers Crossroads's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tuckers Crossroads
Each reading below is measured for Tuckers Crossroads itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTuckers Crossroads runs about 232 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
MeasuredTuckers Crossroads 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 Tuckers Crossroads is in
Tuckers Crossroads sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Tuckers Crossroads's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wilson County.
What Grows in Tuckers Crossroads
Every plant below cleared Tuckers Crossroads's own zone 7b and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tuckers Crossroads?
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 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Tuckers Crossroads
Spotted lanternfly documented 17 miles from Tuckers Crossroads, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tuckers Crossroads
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tuckers Crossroads. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Linwood MarathonUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Grant's Store -oshie DouglasUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Cooksey Big Stop MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- Tucker's Crossroads MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Wi:M-031Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- Key Stop MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- C H GriffithUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- Sulfur CreekMining · 4.8 mi
- Macey ProspectMining · 4.9 mi
- Whites Bp StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- Jewell Disposal Service IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- Ozark Motor Lines, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tuckers Crossroads'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 Tuckers Crossroads.
Total Sites
214
within ~10 miles of Tuckers Crossroads
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tuckers Crossroads
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tuckers Crossroads
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tuckers Crossroads, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Tuckers Crossroads — PFAS (3 sites) and Superfund (3 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Tuckers Crossroads
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 Tuckers Crossroads
Everything above resolves to Tuckers Crossroads as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Tuckers Crossroads Average
Tuckers Crossroads Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Tuckers Crossroads
- ●One soil character for all of Tuckers Crossroads
- ●Frost dates read at Tuckers Crossroads's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tuckers Crossroads's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tuckers Crossroads
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tuckers Crossroads, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tuckers Crossroads averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tuckers Crossroads — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tuckers Crossroads average
How we know this about Tuckers Crossroads
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 Tuckers Crossroads’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 Tuckers Crossroads
When does frost risk typically end in Tuckers Crossroads?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tuckers Crossroads typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Tuckers Crossroads?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tuckers Crossroads 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 232 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tuckers Crossroads?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tuckers Crossroads sees about 232 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Oct 28, about 197 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tuckers Crossroads?
The federal record around Tuckers Crossroads is a meaningful one — 214 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (134), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Tuckers Crossroads?
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 Tuckers Crossroads's scale — its 7b band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tuckers Crossroads'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 Tuckers Crossroads’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Tuckers Crossroads's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,823 acres it covers and 214 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tuckers Crossroads's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tuckers Crossroads's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 11 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 214 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tuckers Crossroads, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tuckers Crossroads's boundary and the 1,823 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~232-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tuckers Crossroads's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Tuckers Crossroadslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tuckers Crossroads's 1,823 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wilson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wilson 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 Wilson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tuckers Crossroads's 1,823 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tuckers Crossroads you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,823 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Tuckers Crossroads-wide figureread your own land →
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