Redings Mill, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Redings Mill, 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 Redings Mill lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Redings Mill — the short answer
Redings Mill, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 129 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 129 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7a is Redings Mill's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Redings Mill's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Redings Mill
Each reading below is measured for Redings Mill itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRedings Mill runs about 225 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredRedings Mill sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Redings Mill is in
Redings Mill sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Redings Mill's own centroid rather than borrowed from Newton County.
What Grows in Redings Mill
Every plant below cleared Redings Mill's own zone 7a and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Redings Mill?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Redings Mill
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Redings Mill. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Unknown - Zn/PbMining · 400 ft
- MODOT PROPERTY - FORMER STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- T27N R33W 34ADA1Nitrate · 1400 ft
- MO AMERICAN JOPLINPFAS · 1600 ft
- PETRO STOPPING CENTERPFAS · 1600 ft
- Snowstorm Mine & DiggingsMining · 0.8 mi
- Reding MineMining · 0.8 mi
- CYCLE CONNECTION PIT STOP, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- GALE WEBB TRANSPORTATIONBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- GO #702Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- MESSENGER PUBLISHING HOUSEBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- Anne Lee Mine South ShaftsMining · 1.2 mi
5 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Redings Mill'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 Redings Mill.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Redings Mill
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Redings Mill
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Redings Mill, Mining runs higher than the national average — 1,883 sites within ~10 miles of Redings Mill. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Redings Mill
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Redings Mill
Everything above resolves to Redings Mill as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 129 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 Redings Mill Average
Redings Mill Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Redings Mill
- ●One soil character for all of Redings Mill
- ●Frost dates read at Redings Mill's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Redings Mill's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Redings Mill
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Redings Mill, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Redings Mill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Redings Mill
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 Redings Mill’s own record; 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 Redings Mill
When does frost risk typically end in Redings Mill?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Redings Mill typically lands around Mar 26, 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 Apr 16.
When is the first frost in Redings Mill?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Redings Mill typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Redings Mill?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Redings Mill sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 23, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Redings Mill?
The federal record around Redings Mill runs heavier than most — 2,472 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (1,883), the nearest Mining record under a tenth of a mile 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.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Redings Mill?
From about Oct 7 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 Nov 6 (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 Nov 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Redings Mill's scale — its 7a band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Redings Mill'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 Redings Mill’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Redings Mill's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 129 acres it covers and 2,472 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Redings Mill's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Redings Mill's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 6 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,472 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Redings Mill, the closest Mining record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Redings Mill's boundary and the 129 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~225-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Redings Mill's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Redings Mill's 129 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Newton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Newton County
- The growing challenges every Missouri grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Missouri
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Newton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Redings Mill's 129 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Redings Mill you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 129 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining 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 Redings Mill-wide figureread your own land →
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