Masaryktown, 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.
A short list that earns its place here — artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Masaryktown, 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 Masaryktown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Masaryktown — the short answer
Masaryktown, Florida: USDA zone 9a, about 321 days between hard freezes, across 669 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 2
- Hernando County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 20
- Hernando County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~321
- Hernando County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 669 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 Hernando County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Masaryktown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Masaryktown's 321-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Masaryktown
Each reading below is measured for Masaryktown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsMasaryktown runs about 321 days between hard freezes (read from Hernando County, the closest normal to Masaryktown) — 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
MeasuredMasaryktown 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 Masaryktown is in
Masaryktown sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Masaryktown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hernando County.
What Grows in Masaryktown
Every plant below cleared Masaryktown's own zone 9a and its 321-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Masaryktown?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 20 — 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 Masaryktown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Masaryktown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SAV-U-GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- SPEEDWAY #6532Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- ALL AMERICAN DIESEL PERFORMANCE LLCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- RICHEE RICH PANTRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- STANS GARAGEBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- STANS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- MASARYKTOWN DEEP WELL NEAR MASARYKTOWN FLNitrate · 1.0 mi
- HERNANDO EGG PRODUCERS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- REGENCY TECHNOLOGIESBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- WILLOW BEND DASH IN DASH OUT FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- THE NURSING CTR AT UNIV VILLAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- WD LUMBER & TRUSS COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Masaryktown'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 Masaryktown.
Total Sites
426
within ~10 miles of Masaryktown
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
20 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Masaryktown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Masaryktown
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Masaryktown
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 Masaryktown average
Your land is one point inside Masaryktown
Everything above resolves to Masaryktown as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 669 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Hernando 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 Masaryktown Average
Masaryktown Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Masaryktown
- ●One soil character for all of Masaryktown
- ●Frost dates read at Masaryktown's scale: Feb 2 to Dec 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Masaryktown's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Masaryktown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Masaryktown, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Masaryktown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Masaryktown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Masaryktown average
How we know this about Masaryktown
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 Hernando 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 Masaryktown
When does frost risk typically end in Masaryktown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Masaryktown typically lands around Feb 2, 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 Feb 23.
When is the first frost in Masaryktown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Masaryktown typically arrives around Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 6, so the watching starts about Nov 20 — about 321 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Masaryktown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Masaryktown sees about 321 frost-free days — roughly Feb 2 through Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 23 to Dec 6, about 286 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Masaryktown?
The federal record around Masaryktown is a meaningful one — 426 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (219), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Masaryktown?
From about Nov 20 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Masaryktown's scale — its 9a band and its 321-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Masaryktown'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 Masaryktown’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Masaryktown's own scale — the 669 acres it covers and 426 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Masaryktown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 426 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Masaryktown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Masaryktown's boundary and the 669 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~321-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Masaryktown's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Masaryktown has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Hernando County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Masaryktown's 669 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hernando County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hernando 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 Hernando County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Masaryktown's 669 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Masaryktown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 669 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Masaryktown-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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