Medley, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 11a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include artichoke, starfruit, allspice, and cabbage — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Medley, 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 Medley 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 Medley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Medley — the short answer
Medley, Florida: USDA zone 11a, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 11a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Killing freeze
- None on record
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
- Town area
- 4K 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 11a is Medley's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Medley'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 Medley
Each reading below is measured for Medley itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMedley sits in USDA hardiness zone 11a.
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 Medley is in
Medley sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at Medley's own centroid rather than borrowed from Miami-Dade County.
What Grows in Medley
Every plant below cleared Medley's own zone 11a. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Medley
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Medley. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BREWER CO OF FLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- TALLOWMASTERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- GLOBAL TURBINE SERVICES INCBrownfields · 2300 ft
- URS FEDERAL SERVICES INCBrownfields · 2400 ft
- ART & DESIGN PRODUCTIONSBrownfields · 2400 ft
- ALAN SMITH INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- GA TELESIS LANDING GEAR SERVICES LLCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- GA TELESIS LANDING GEAR SERVICES LLCToxics Release Inventory · 0.5 mi
- EDRON FIXTURE CORPORATIONToxics Release Inventory · 0.5 mi
- CHEM KLEAN CORPBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- MEDLEY FUELS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS WHEEL & BRAKES SERVICES MIABrownfields · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Medley'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 Medley.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Medley
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Medley
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Medley, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 49 sites within ~10 miles of Medley. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Medley
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 Medley average
Your land is one point inside Medley
Everything above resolves to Medley as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Medley Average
Medley Average
- ●USDA Zones 11a, averaged across Medley
- ●One soil character for all of Medley
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Medley's 11a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Medley
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Medley, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Medley averages can't show:
We read public map data around Medley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Medley average
How we know this about Medley
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 Medley
Is it too late to plant in Medley?
No — Medley 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 Medley?
It doesn't — Medley 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 Medley?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Medley 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 Medley?
The federal record around Medley runs heavier than most — 3,874 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,680), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
Everything above is measured at Medley's scale — its 11a band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Medley'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 Medley’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Medley's own scale — the 4,240 acres it covers and 3,874 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Medley's own USDA hardiness band, zones 11aUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Medley — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 3,874 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Medley, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Medley's boundary and the 4,240 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Medley's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Medley's own centroid, the Southern Florida Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Medley's 4,240 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Miami-Dade County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Medley's 4,240 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Medley you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,240 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Medley-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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