Plantation Island, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Plantation Island, 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 Plantation Island 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 Plantation Island — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Plantation Island — the short answer
Plantation Island, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 369 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
- 369 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 Plantation Island's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Plantation Island'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 Plantation Island
Each reading below is measured for Plantation Island itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredPlantation Island 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
The kind of country Plantation Island is in
Plantation Island sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at Plantation Island's own centroid rather than borrowed from Collier County.
What Grows in Plantation Island
Every plant below cleared Plantation Island's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Plantation Island
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Plantation Island. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- S OF EVERGLADES CITY ON SR-29Nitrate · 2200 ft
- EVERGLADES NATL PRK BOAT TOURS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CARLOS VALDEZ SITE - EVERGLADES CITY PROPERTYBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- EVERGLADES CITYBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- GATOR EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- C - 445ANitrate · 1.0 mi
- CIRCLE K #7330Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- ERNEST HAMILTON STONE CRABS-JIGSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- SPEEDY JOHNSON'S AIRBOAT RIDESBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- MALEY BROTHERSBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- OUTDOOR RESORTS OF CHOKOLOSKEEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- PARKWAY MOTEL & MARINA OF CHOKOLOSKEE ISLND INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Plantation Island'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 Plantation Island.
Total Sites
36
within ~10 miles of Plantation Island
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Plantation Island
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Plantation Island
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Plantation Island, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 14 sites within ~10 miles of Plantation Island. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Plantation Island
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 Plantation Island average
Your land is one point inside Plantation Island
Everything above resolves to Plantation Island as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 369 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 Plantation Island Average
Plantation Island Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Plantation Island
- ●One soil character for all of Plantation Island
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Plantation Island's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Plantation Island
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Plantation Island, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Plantation Island averages can't show:
We read public map data around Plantation Island — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Plantation Island average
How we know this about Plantation Island
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 Plantation Island
Is it too late to plant in Plantation Island?
No — Plantation Island 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 Plantation Island?
It doesn't — Plantation Island 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 Plantation Island?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Plantation Island 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 Plantation Island?
The federal record around Plantation Island is a meaningful one — 36 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (14), the nearest Nitrate 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 Plantation Island's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Plantation Island'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 Plantation Island’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Plantation Island's own scale — the 369 acres it covers and 36 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Plantation Island's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Plantation Island — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 36 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Plantation Island, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Plantation Island's boundary and the 369 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Plantation Island's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Plantation Island'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 Plantation Island's 369 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Collier County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Collier 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 Collier County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Plantation Island's 369 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Plantation Island you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 369 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Plantation Island-wide figureread your own land →