Chesapeake Landing, Maryland, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Chesapeake Landing, 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 Chesapeake Landing lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Chesapeake Landing — the short answer
Chesapeake Landing, Maryland: USDA zone 8a, about 260 days between hard freezes, across 641 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~260
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 641 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 8a is Chesapeake Landing's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chesapeake Landing's 260-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Chesapeake Landing
Each reading below is measured for Chesapeake Landing itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChesapeake Landing runs about 260 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredChesapeake Landing sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Chesapeake Landing is in
Chesapeake Landing sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Chesapeake Landing's own centroid rather than borrowed from Kent County.
What Grows in Chesapeake Landing
Every plant below cleared Chesapeake Landing's own zone 8a and its 260-day season. Each card opens that plant's Maryland profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Chesapeake Landing?
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 Feb 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
Documented around Chesapeake Landing
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Chesapeake Landing, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Chesapeake Landing
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chesapeake Landing. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WORTON CREEK MARINABrownfields · 0.6 mi
- Worton Creek Marina, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- KE Bb 38Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- Debnam EnterprisesUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Reed's General StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- The Wharf at Handy's Point, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Green Point MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- KE Bc 29Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- NICHOLSON DROP-OFF CENTERBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- Franklin M. Dill IIUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- Great Oak ManorUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Great Oak Landing, LTDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chesapeake Landing'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 Chesapeake Landing.
Total Sites
332
within ~10 miles of Chesapeake Landing
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chesapeake Landing
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chesapeake Landing
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Chesapeake Landing, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Chesapeake Landing — Nitrate (180 sites) and CAFO (5 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Chesapeake Landing
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 Chesapeake Landing average
Your land is one point inside Chesapeake Landing
Everything above resolves to Chesapeake Landing as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 641 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 Chesapeake Landing Average
Chesapeake Landing Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Chesapeake Landing
- ●One soil character for all of Chesapeake Landing
- ●Frost dates read at Chesapeake Landing's scale: Mar 14 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chesapeake Landing's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Chesapeake Landing
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Chesapeake Landing, Maryland — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Chesapeake Landing averages can't show:
We read public map data around Chesapeake Landing — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Chesapeake Landing average
How we know this about Chesapeake Landing
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 Chesapeake Landing’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 Chesapeake Landing
When does frost risk typically end in Chesapeake Landing?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Chesapeake Landing typically lands around Mar 14, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Chesapeake Landing?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Chesapeake Landing typically arrives around Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 15, so the watching starts about Oct 30 — about 260 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Chesapeake Landing?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Chesapeake Landing sees about 260 frost-free days — roughly Mar 14 through Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 4 to Nov 15, about 225 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Chesapeake Landing?
The federal record around Chesapeake Landing is a meaningful one — 332 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (180), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.6 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.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Chesapeake Landing?
From about Oct 30 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Chesapeake Landing's scale — its 8a band and its 260-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Chesapeake Landing'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 Chesapeake Landing’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Chesapeake Landing's own scale — its own ~260-day season between 28°F freezes, the 641 acres it covers and 332 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chesapeake Landing's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Chesapeake Landing's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 14 and Nov 29 and the ~260-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 332 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chesapeake Landing, the closest Brownfields record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chesapeake Landing's boundary and the 641 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~260-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Chesapeake Landing's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Chesapeake Landinglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Chesapeake Landing's 641 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Kent County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Kent County
- The growing challenges every Maryland grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Maryland
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Kent County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Chesapeake Landing's 641 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chesapeake Landing you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 641 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.6 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 Chesapeake Landing-wide figureread your own land →