Peppermill Village, 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.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Peppermill Village, 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 Peppermill Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Peppermill Village — the short answer
Peppermill Village, Maryland: USDA zone 7b, about 246 days between hard freezes, across 475 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~246
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 475 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 Peppermill Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Peppermill Village's 246-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Peppermill Village
Each reading below is measured for Peppermill Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPeppermill Village runs about 246 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
MeasuredPeppermill Village 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 Peppermill Village is in
Peppermill Village sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Peppermill Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Prince George's County.
What Grows in Peppermill Village
Every plant below cleared Peppermill Village's own zone 7b and its 246-day season. Each card opens that plant's Maryland profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Peppermill Village?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Peppermill Village
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Peppermill Village, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Peppermill Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Peppermill Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Melvin & Daisy MooreUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- HILL RD WATER PUMPING STATION & RESERVOIRS 1, 2 & 3Brownfields · 2100 ft
- NU-LOOK 1 HR CLEANERSBrownfields · 2300 ft
- METRO - 7308 CENTRAL AVENUE SITEBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- Phillips 66 Co. #21482Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- EXXONBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- Global Montello Group Corp #1770Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- PEH, LLC #868Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SAFEWAY STORE #124Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- Addison Road StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Glendale Baptist ChurchUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Police District #3Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Peppermill Village'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 Peppermill Village.
Total Sites
4,618
within ~10 miles of Peppermill Village
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
61 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Peppermill Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Peppermill Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Peppermill Village, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 61 sites within ~10 miles of Peppermill Village. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Peppermill Village
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 Peppermill Village average
Your land is one point inside Peppermill Village
Everything above resolves to Peppermill Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 475 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 Peppermill Village Average
Peppermill Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Peppermill Village
- ●One soil character for all of Peppermill Village
- ●Frost dates read at Peppermill Village's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Peppermill Village's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Peppermill Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Peppermill Village, Maryland — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Peppermill Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Peppermill Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Peppermill Village average
How we know this about Peppermill Village
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 Peppermill Village’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 Peppermill Village
When does frost risk typically end in Peppermill Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Peppermill Village typically lands around Mar 19, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Peppermill Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Peppermill Village typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 246 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Peppermill Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Peppermill Village sees about 246 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Nov 6, about 211 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Peppermill Village?
The federal record around Peppermill Village runs heavier than most — 4,618 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (2,477), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles 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 Peppermill Village?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Peppermill Village's scale — its 7b band and its 246-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Peppermill Village'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 Peppermill Village’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Peppermill Village's own scale — its own ~246-day season between 28°F freezes, the 475 acres it covers and 4,618 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Peppermill Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Peppermill Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 20 and the ~246-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 4,618 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Peppermill Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Peppermill Village's boundary and the 475 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~246-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Peppermill Village's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Peppermill Villagelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Peppermill Village's 475 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 Peppermill Village's 475 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Peppermill Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 475 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Peppermill Village-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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