North Brentwood, Maryland, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in North Brentwood, 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 North Brentwood lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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North Brentwood — the short answer
North Brentwood, Maryland: USDA zone 7b, about 239 days between hard freezes, across 72 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~239
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 72 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 7b is North Brentwood's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against North Brentwood's 239-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in North Brentwood
Each reading below is measured for North Brentwood itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNorth Brentwood runs about 239 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
MeasuredNorth Brentwood sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 North Brentwood is in
North Brentwood sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at North Brentwood's own centroid rather than borrowed from Prince George's County.
What Grows in North Brentwood
Every plant below cleared North Brentwood's own zone 7b and its 239-day season. Each card opens that plant's Maryland profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in North Brentwood?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around North Brentwood
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from North Brentwood, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near North Brentwood
Closest first, within ~10 miles of North Brentwood. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- The Roof Center, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- TACHOS TORNERIA MACHINE SHOPBrownfields · 700 ft
- Diener CarpetUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- RO-COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- PROSPERI CO INCBrownfields · 1000 ft
- MTI Construction ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Service Properties (formerly Service Plus, Inc.)Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- HYATTSVILLE AUTO BODY, INC.Brownfields · 1300 ft
- Capitol Ford Auto BodyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Lynn LadderUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Brentwood Fire Department Co. #4Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Koch Auto Radiator Service, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from North Brentwood'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 North Brentwood.
Total Sites
5,552
within ~10 miles of North Brentwood
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
73 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of North Brentwood
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of North Brentwood
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around North Brentwood, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 73 sites within ~10 miles of North Brentwood. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in North Brentwood
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 North Brentwood average
Your land is one point inside North Brentwood
Everything above resolves to North Brentwood as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 72 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 North Brentwood Average
North Brentwood Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across North Brentwood
- ●One soil character for all of North Brentwood
- ●Frost dates read at North Brentwood's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not North Brentwood's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in North Brentwood
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in North Brentwood, Maryland — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that North Brentwood averages can't show:
We read public map data around North Brentwood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the North Brentwood average
How we know this about North Brentwood
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 North Brentwood’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 North Brentwood
When does frost risk typically end in North Brentwood?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in North Brentwood typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in North Brentwood?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in North Brentwood typically arrives around Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 2, so the watching starts about Oct 17 — about 239 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in North Brentwood?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, North Brentwood sees about 239 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Nov 2, about 204 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in North Brentwood?
The federal record around North Brentwood is a meaningful one — 5,552 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (2,959), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 North Brentwood?
From about Oct 17 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at North Brentwood's scale — its 7b band and its 239-day season. Your yard writes its own version of North Brentwood'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 North Brentwood’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at North Brentwood's own scale — its own ~239-day season between 28°F freezes, the 72 acres it covers and 5,552 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- North Brentwood's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- North Brentwood's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 16 and the ~239-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 5,552 documented contamination sites on the federal record near North Brentwood, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- North Brentwood's boundary and the 72 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~239-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at North Brentwood's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of North Brentwoodlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so North Brentwood's 72 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Prince George's County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Prince George's 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 Prince George's County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among North Brentwood's 72 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of North Brentwood you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 72 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 North Brentwood-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MarylandNorth Brentwood sits outside our named growing regions, so Maryland as a whole is its closest context here.
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