Reddick, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Reddick, 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 Reddick lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Reddick — the short answer
Reddick, Florida: USDA zone 9a, about 314 days between hard freezes, across 806 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 3
- Marion County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 14
- Marion County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~314
- Marion County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 806 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 Marion County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Reddick's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Reddick's 314-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Reddick
Each reading below is measured for Reddick itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsReddick runs about 314 days between hard freezes (read from Marion County, the closest normal to Reddick) — 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
MeasuredReddick 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 Reddick is in
Reddick sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Reddick's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marion County.
What Grows in Reddick
Every plant below cleared Reddick's own zone 9a and its 314-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Reddick?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 14 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Reddick
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Reddick. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- POSSE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- NOE PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- BERYLENES BEAUTY SALONUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- OLD FLOWER SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- ANGEL FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- SHEARER PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- MAYNARDS SRVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- ROMAC PAVING COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- NEALS DRY CLEANINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- MCSB TRANSPORTATION COMPLEX - COLLIER CAMPUSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- GILLIAM PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- JAMES CLINTON HORSE RANCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Reddick'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 Reddick.
Total Sites
249
within ~10 miles of Reddick
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Reddick
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Reddick
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Reddick, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 190 sites within ~10 miles of Reddick. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Reddick
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 Reddick average
Your land is one point inside Reddick
Everything above resolves to Reddick as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 806 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Marion 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 Reddick Average
Reddick Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Reddick
- ●One soil character for all of Reddick
- ●Frost dates read at Reddick's scale: Feb 3 to Dec 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Reddick's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Reddick
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Reddick, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Reddick averages can't show:
We read public map data around Reddick — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Reddick average
How we know this about Reddick
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 Marion 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 Reddick
When does frost risk typically end in Reddick?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Reddick typically lands around Feb 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Reddick?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Reddick typically arrives around Dec 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 30, so the watching starts about Nov 14 — about 314 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Reddick?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Reddick sees about 314 frost-free days — roughly Feb 3 through Dec 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 24 to Nov 30, about 279 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Reddick?
The federal record around Reddick is a meaningful one — 249 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (190), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Reddick?
From about Nov 14 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Reddick's scale — its 9a band and its 314-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Reddick'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 Reddick’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Reddick's own scale — the 806 acres it covers and 249 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Reddick's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 249 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Reddick, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Reddick's boundary and the 806 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~314-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Reddick's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Reddick has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Marion County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Reddick's 806 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marion County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marion 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 Marion County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Reddick's 806 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Reddick you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 806 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 Reddick-wide figureread your own land →
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