Templeton, Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Templeton, 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 Templeton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Templeton — the short answer
Templeton, Virginia: USDA zone 7b, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 1K 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 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~233
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 Templeton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Templeton's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Templeton
Each reading below is measured for Templeton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTempleton runs about 233 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
MeasuredTempleton 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 Templeton is in
Templeton sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Templeton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Prince George County.
What Grows in Templeton
Every plant below cleared Templeton's own zone 7b and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Templeton?
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 12 — 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 Templeton
Spotted lanternfly documented 21 miles from Templeton, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Templeton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Templeton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ALVISTA HILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 100 ft
- Nirvair Enterprise VA IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- VDOT - CARSON AREA HEADQUARTERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- PRINCE GEORGE MANORUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HARE BERNARD T JRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- Floyd W Baird JrUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- ROWANTY VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOLBrownfields · 3.3 mi
- ROWANTY VO TECHUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- CARSON TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- Verizon Business-CRSNVAUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- CARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- 51E 1 SOW 041Nitrate · 3.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Templeton'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 Templeton.
Total Sites
204
within ~10 miles of Templeton
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Templeton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Templeton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Templeton, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Templeton — Toxics Release Inventory (14 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (136 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Templeton
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 Templeton
Everything above resolves to Templeton 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 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 Templeton Average
Templeton Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Templeton
- ●One soil character for all of Templeton
- ●Frost dates read at Templeton's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Templeton's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Templeton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Templeton, Virginia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Templeton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Templeton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Templeton average
How we know this about Templeton
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 Templeton’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 Templeton
When does frost risk typically end in Templeton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Templeton 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 Templeton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Templeton typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Templeton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Templeton sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Oct 29, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Templeton?
The federal record around Templeton is a meaningful one — 204 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (136), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Templeton?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Templeton's scale — its 7b band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Templeton'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 Templeton’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Templeton's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,325 acres it covers and 204 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Templeton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Templeton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 12 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 204 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Templeton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Templeton's boundary and the 1,325 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Templeton's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Templetonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Templeton's 1,325 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Prince George County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Prince George 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 Prince George County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Templeton's 1,325 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Templeton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,325 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 Templeton-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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