Manasota Key, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Manasota Key, 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 Manasota Key lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Manasota Key — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Manasota Key — the short answer
Manasota Key, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 678 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Killing freeze
- None on record
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
- Town area
- 678 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. The year-round finding is measured — a 30-year record with no 28°F killing freeze in it — never inferred from missing dates.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 10b is Manasota Key's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Manasota Key's no killing freeze on record, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Manasota Key
Each reading below is measured for Manasota Key itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredManasota Key sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b.
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
What Grows in Manasota Key
Every plant below cleared Manasota Key's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Manasota Key
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Manasota Key. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CIRCLE K #4718Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- ENGLEWOOD FOOD STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- WILLIAM AUTO MOTIONBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- MICHAEL SAUNDERS ENGLEWOOD SALES OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- STERNS AUTO SERVICE & TIRE CTR INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- 7-ELEVEN STORE #40319Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- PLACIDA MARINA LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- CHARLOTTE CNTY SCHOOL BD LEMON BAY HSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKET #400Brownfields · 1.3 mi
- BP AMOCO-MCCALL RDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #1013Brownfields · 1.4 mi
- WINN-DIXIE STORE #2439Brownfields · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Manasota Key'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 Manasota Key.
Total Sites
261
within ~10 miles of Manasota Key
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Manasota Key
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Manasota Key
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Manasota Key, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Manasota Key. 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.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Manasota Key
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 Manasota Key average
Your land is one point inside Manasota Key
Everything above resolves to Manasota Key as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 678 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 Manasota Key Average
Manasota Key Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Manasota Key
- ●One soil character for all of Manasota Key
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Manasota Key's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Manasota Key
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Manasota Key, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Manasota Key averages can't show:
We read public map data around Manasota Key — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Manasota Key average
How we know this about Manasota Key
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, with the labelled statewide window where none resolves; 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 Manasota Key
Is it too late to plant in Manasota Key?
No — Manasota Key has no 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record, so the growing season is year-round and there is no last-frost date to wait for. Planting is paced by rainfall, heat and daylength instead of by frost: start heat-lovers any month, and time cool-season crops (lettuce, brassicas, peas) for the cooler, wetter half of the year or for higher ground. Succession sowing every few weeks works all year, so the limit is what you can keep watered and harvested, not the calendar.
When does frost risk typically end in Manasota Key?
It doesn't — Manasota Key records no 28°F killing freeze at all across the 1991–2020 station record, so there is no spring frost date to plant after. Cold still matters with elevation: the higher you garden, the cooler the nights, and a few tropical crops sulk below about 60°F even where they never freeze.
How long is the growing season in Manasota Key?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Manasota Key contains no 28°F killing freeze, so there is no season to measure between freezes. What paces planting instead is heat, rainfall and daylength: the hottest, wettest stretch is the hard part for cool-season crops, not winter. Elevation is the one real exception — the higher you garden, the colder the nights get.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Manasota Key?
The federal record around Manasota Key is a meaningful one — 261 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (112), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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.
Everything above is measured at Manasota Key's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Manasota Key'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 Manasota Key’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Manasota Key's own scale — the 678 acres it covers and 261 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Manasota Key's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Manasota Key — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 261 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Manasota Key, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Manasota Key's boundary and the 678 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Manasota Key's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Manasota Key's 678 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Charlotte County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Charlotte 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 Charlotte County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Manasota Key's 678 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Manasota Key you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 678 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Manasota Key-wide figureread your own land →