Lloyd, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — 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 artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lloyd, 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 Lloyd lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lloyd — the short answer
Lloyd, Florida: USDA zone 9a, about 298 days between hard freezes, across 970 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 11
- Jefferson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 6
- Jefferson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~298
- Jefferson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 970 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Jefferson County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Lloyd's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lloyd's 298-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lloyd
Each reading below is measured for Lloyd itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLloyd runs about 298 days between hard freezes (read from Jefferson County, the closest normal to Lloyd) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredLloyd sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Lloyd is in
Lloyd sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lloyd's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jefferson County.
What Grows in Lloyd
Every plant below cleared Lloyd's own zone 9a and its 298-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lloyd?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Lloyd
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lloyd. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CAPITAL CITY TRAVEL CTR INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- JOYNERS TRAVEL CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- ARGOS LLOYD CONCRETE PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 850 ft
- MARGARET JOYNER PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- SMYRNA READY MIX CONCRETE LLC - SRM PLANT #123Toxics Release Inventory · 2400 ft
- LAWRENCE FOOD STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- SEGO PROPERTY RESIDENCE SALVAGE YARDBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- LLOYD CROSS ROAD STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- FREELAND FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- DONNA & BILL LAMONT PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- OLD COXSETTER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- MILLERS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lloyd'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 Lloyd.
Total Sites
112
within ~10 miles of Lloyd
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lloyd
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lloyd
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lloyd, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lloyd — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (82 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Lloyd
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 Lloyd average
Your land is one point inside Lloyd
Everything above resolves to Lloyd as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 970 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Jefferson County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Lloyd Average
Lloyd Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Lloyd
- ●One soil character for all of Lloyd
- ●Frost dates read at Lloyd's scale: Feb 11 to Dec 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lloyd's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lloyd
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lloyd, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lloyd averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lloyd — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lloyd average
How we know this about Lloyd
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 Jefferson County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Lloyd
When does frost risk typically end in Lloyd?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lloyd typically lands around Feb 11, 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 Mar 4.
When is the first frost in Lloyd?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lloyd typically arrives around Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 22, so the watching starts about Nov 6 — about 298 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lloyd?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lloyd sees about 298 frost-free days — roughly Feb 11 through Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 4 to Nov 22, about 263 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lloyd?
The federal record around Lloyd shows 112 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (82), 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 Lloyd?
From about Nov 6 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 Dec 6 (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 Dec 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lloyd's scale — its 9a band and its 298-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lloyd'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 Lloyd’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Lloyd's own scale — the 970 acres it covers and 112 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lloyd's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 112 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lloyd, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lloyd's boundary and the 970 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~298-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lloyd's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Lloyd has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Jefferson County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lloyd's 970 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jefferson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jefferson County
- The growing challenges every Florida grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Florida
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Jefferson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lloyd's 970 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lloyd you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 970 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 Lloyd-wide figureread your own land →
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