Redford, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — okra, black-eyed pea, tomato, and jalapeno — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Redford, 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 Redford lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Redford — the short answer
Redford, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 239 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- Presidio County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- Presidio County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~239
- Presidio County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Presidio County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Redford's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Redford's 239-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Redford
Each reading below is measured for Redford itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsRedford runs about 239 days between hard freezes (read from Presidio County, the closest normal to Redford) — 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
MeasuredRedford 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 Redford is in
Redford sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Redford's own centroid rather than borrowed from Presidio County.
What Grows in Redford
Plants matched to Redford's USDA zones 9a, ordered by how much hardiness margin each has here — the ones with room to spare at both ends of this town's band lead. Each links to its full growing profile.
Is it too late to plant in Redford?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — 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.
Environmental Check
No contamination sources found near Redford
We checked 9 federal environmental databases and found no recorded contamination sites in this area. A clean starting point for growing.
Your land is one point inside Redford
Everything above resolves to Redford as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 5K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Presidio 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 Redford Average
Redford Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Redford
- ●One soil character for all of Redford
- ●Frost dates read at Redford's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Redford's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Redford
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Redford, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Redford averages can't show:
We read public map data around Redford — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Redford
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 Presidio 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 Redford
When does frost risk typically end in Redford?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Redford typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Redford?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Redford typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 239 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Redford?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Redford sees about 239 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Nov 1, about 204 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Redford?
No database can certify soil, but the federal record here is clean: we checked all 9 federal contamination source types and found no documented sites within the search radii around Redford. That means nothing is on record — not that the land is certified clean — so a one-time soil test is still the way to know your own yard's history.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Redford?
From about Oct 16 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 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 Nov 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Redford's scale — its 9a band and its 239-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Redford'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 Redford’s own scale
3 of the readings below were taken at Redford's own scale — the 4,755 acres it covers; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Redford's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Redford's boundary and the 4,755 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- The ecoregion at Redford's own centroid, the Chihuahuan DesertsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Redford has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Presidio County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Redford's 4,755 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Presidio County
- The candidate plant list — Texas's curated set, filtered to this zone band and re-ordered by how much margin each has herefrom Texas
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Presidio 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 Presidio County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Redford's 4,755 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Redford you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,755 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How much sun your beds actually get once the trees leaf outmeasuring sun honestly →
- 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 Redford-wide figureread your own land →
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