Midfield, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Midfield, 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 Midfield lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Midfield — the short answer
Midfield, Texas: USDA zone 9b, about 322 days between hard freezes, across 296 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 27
- Matagorda County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 15
- Matagorda County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~322
- Matagorda County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 296 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 Matagorda County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Midfield's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Midfield's 322-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Midfield
Each reading below is measured for Midfield itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsMidfield runs about 322 days between hard freezes (read from Matagorda County, the closest normal to Midfield) — 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
MeasuredMidfield sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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 Midfield is in
Midfield sits in the Western Gulf Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Midfield's own centroid rather than borrowed from Matagorda County.
What Grows in Midfield
Every plant below cleared Midfield's own zone 9b and its 322-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Midfield?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 15 — 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 Midfield
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Midfield. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TA-80-07-411Nitrate · 500 ft
- TA-80-07-410Nitrate · 1000 ft
- TA-80-07-412Nitrate · 1200 ft
- TA-80-07-502Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- TA-80-07-409Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- TA-80-07-501Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- TA-80-07-205Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- TA-80-07-403Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- TA-80-07-802Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- TA-80-07-401Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- TA-80-07-103Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- TA-80-07-402Nitrate · 2.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Midfield'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 Midfield.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Midfield
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Midfield
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Midfield, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 106 sites within ~10 miles of Midfield. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 Midfield
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 Midfield average
Your land is one point inside Midfield
Everything above resolves to Midfield as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 296 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Matagorda 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 Midfield Average
Midfield Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Midfield
- ●One soil character for all of Midfield
- ●Frost dates read at Midfield's scale: Jan 27 to Dec 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Midfield's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Midfield
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Midfield, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Midfield averages can't show:
We read public map data around Midfield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Midfield average
How we know this about Midfield
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 Matagorda 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 Midfield
When does frost risk typically end in Midfield?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Midfield typically lands around Jan 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Midfield?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Midfield typically arrives around Dec 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 1, so the watching starts about Nov 15 — about 322 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Midfield?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Midfield sees about 322 frost-free days — roughly Jan 27 through Dec 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 17 to Dec 1, about 287 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Midfield?
The federal record around Midfield shows 116 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (106), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Midfield?
From about Nov 15 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Midfield's scale — its 9b band and its 322-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Midfield'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 Midfield’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Midfield's own scale — the 296 acres it covers and 116 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Midfield's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 116 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Midfield, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Midfield's boundary and the 296 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~322-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Midfield's own centroid, the Western Gulf Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Midfield has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Matagorda County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Midfield's 296 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Matagorda County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Matagorda County
- The growing challenges every Texas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Texas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Matagorda County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Midfield's 296 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Midfield you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 296 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Midfield-wide figureread your own land →
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