Nottoway Court House, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Nottoway Court House, 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 Nottoway Court House lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Nottoway Court House — the short answer
Nottoway Court House, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 229 days between hard freezes, across 802 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~229
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 802 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 Nottoway Court House's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Nottoway Court House's 229-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Nottoway Court House
Each reading below is measured for Nottoway Court House itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNottoway Court House runs about 229 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
MeasuredNottoway Court House 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 Nottoway Court House is in
Nottoway Court House sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Nottoway Court House's own centroid rather than borrowed from Nottoway County.
What Grows in Nottoway Court House
Every plant below cleared Nottoway Court House's own zone 7b and its 229-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Nottoway Court House?
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 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Nottoway Court House
Spotted lanternfly documented 18 miles from Nottoway Court House, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Nottoway Court House
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Nottoway Court House. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- COUNTY OF NOTTOWAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- NOTTOWAY COUNTY SHERIFF DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- VDOT - Nottoway Area HeadquartersUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Bishop Nissan IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- EVANS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- NOTTOWAY COUNTY LANDFILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- NOTTOWAY COUNTY LANDFILLToxics Release Inventory · 3.0 mi
- O.G. WOOTTON, JRUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- CREWE, TOWN OFPFAS · 3.4 mi
- FORT PICKETTSuperfund · 3.8 mi
- BP Crewe StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- VDOT JENNINGS ORDINARY HDQBrownfields · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Nottoway Court House'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 Nottoway Court House.
Total Sites
145
within ~10 miles of Nottoway Court House
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Nottoway Court House
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Nottoway Court House
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Nottoway Court House, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 118 sites within ~10 miles of Nottoway Court House. 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.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Nottoway Court House
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 Nottoway Court House average
Your land is one point inside Nottoway Court House
Everything above resolves to Nottoway Court House as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 802 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 Nottoway Court House Average
Nottoway Court House Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Nottoway Court House
- ●One soil character for all of Nottoway Court House
- ●Frost dates read at Nottoway Court House's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Nottoway Court House's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Nottoway Court House
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Nottoway Court House, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Nottoway Court House averages can't show:
We read public map data around Nottoway Court House — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Nottoway Court House average
How we know this about Nottoway Court House
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 Nottoway Court House’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 Nottoway Court House
When does frost risk typically end in Nottoway Court House?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Nottoway Court House typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Nottoway Court House?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Nottoway Court House typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 229 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Nottoway Court House?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Nottoway Court House sees about 229 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 27, about 194 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Nottoway Court House?
The federal record around Nottoway Court House is a meaningful one — 145 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (118), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Nottoway Court House?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Nottoway Court House's scale — its 7b band and its 229-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Nottoway Court House'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 Nottoway Court House’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Nottoway Court House's own scale — its own ~229-day season between 28°F freezes, the 802 acres it covers and 145 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Nottoway Court House's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Nottoway Court House's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 10 and the ~229-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 145 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Nottoway Court House, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Nottoway Court House's boundary and the 802 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~229-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Nottoway Court House's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Nottoway Court Houselydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Nottoway Court House's 802 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Nottoway County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Nottoway 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 Nottoway County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Nottoway Court House's 802 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Nottoway Court House you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 802 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Nottoway Court House-wide figureread your own land →
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