Clover, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Clover, 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 Clover lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Clover — the short answer
Clover, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 4K 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
- 4K 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 Clover's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Clover's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Clover
Each reading below is measured for Clover itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredClover 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
MeasuredClover 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 Clover is in
Clover sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Clover's own centroid rather than borrowed from Halifax County.
What Grows in Clover
Every plant below cleared Clover's own zone 7b and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Clover?
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. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Clover
Spotted lanternfly documented 9 miles from Clover, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Clover
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Clover. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Clover General StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CLOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CLOVER AUTO & ALIGNMENT SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CLOVER TIRE COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- FORMER WILBURNS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Billy's Pure StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- DODSONS STORE FORMERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- DOMINION CLOVER POWER STATIONBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- DOMINION CLOVER POWER STATIONToxics Release Inventory · 2.2 mi
- SCUFFLE TOWN GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- Fearstown GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- Morgan Lumber Company IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Clover'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 Clover.
Total Sites
73
within ~10 miles of Clover
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Clover
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Clover
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Clover, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Clover — Underground Storage Tanks (63 sites) and Mining (5 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Clover
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 Clover
Everything above resolves to Clover as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Clover Average
Clover Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Clover
- ●One soil character for all of Clover
- ●Frost dates read at Clover's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Clover's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Clover
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Clover, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Clover averages can't show:
We read public map data around Clover — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Clover average
How we know this about Clover
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 Clover’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 Clover
When does frost risk typically end in Clover?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Clover 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 Clover?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Clover 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 Clover?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Clover 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 Clover?
The federal record around Clover shows 73 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (63), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Clover?
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 Clover's scale — its 7b band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Clover'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 Clover’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Clover's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,488 acres it covers and 73 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Clover's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Clover's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 11 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 73 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Clover, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Clover's boundary and the 4,488 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 Clover's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Cloverlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Clover's 4,488 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Halifax County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Halifax County
- The growing challenges every Virginia grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Virginia
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Halifax County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Clover's 4,488 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Clover you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,488 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Clover-wide figureread your own land →
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