Trappe, Maryland, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Trappe, 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 Trappe lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Trappe — the short answer
Trappe, Maryland: USDA zone 7b, about 252 days between hard freezes, across 2K 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 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~252
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Trappe's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Trappe's 252-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Trappe
Each reading below is measured for Trappe itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTrappe runs about 252 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
MeasuredTrappe 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 Trappe is in
Trappe sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Trappe's own centroid rather than borrowed from Talbot County.
What Grows in Trappe
Every plant below cleared Trappe's own zone 7b and its 252-day season. Each card opens that plant's Maryland profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Trappe?
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 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 26 — 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.
Documented around Trappe
Spotted lanternfly documented 12 miles from Trappe, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Trappe
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Trappe. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Super Trappe LLC DBA Freedom FuelUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- High's Dairy Store #39Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Trappe StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Ol'Reliable Rentals, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- TA Ee 1Nitrate · 2300 ft
- Trappe Volunteer Fire Co., Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Town of Trappe Wastewater StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Maurice T. Adams & Sons, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Town of TrappeUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #30809Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- Shore Stop #228Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Paris Foods/Trappe PackingUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Trappe'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 Trappe.
Total Sites
587
within ~10 miles of Trappe
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Trappe
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Trappe
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Trappe, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 22 sites within ~10 miles of Trappe. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Trappe
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 Trappe average
Your land is one point inside Trappe
Everything above resolves to Trappe as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Trappe Average
Trappe Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Trappe
- ●One soil character for all of Trappe
- ●Frost dates read at Trappe's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Trappe's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Trappe
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Trappe, Maryland — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Trappe averages can't show:
We read public map data around Trappe — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Trappe average
How we know this about Trappe
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 Trappe’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 Trappe
When does frost risk typically end in Trappe?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Trappe 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 Trappe?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Trappe typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 252 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Trappe?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Trappe sees about 252 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Nov 12, about 217 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Trappe?
The federal record around Trappe is a meaningful one — 587 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (308), 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 Trappe?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Trappe's scale — its 7b band and its 252-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Trappe'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 Trappe’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Trappe's own scale — its own ~252-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,720 acres it covers and 587 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Trappe's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Trappe's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 26 and the ~252-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 587 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Trappe, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Trappe's boundary and the 1,720 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~252-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Trappe's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Trappelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Trappe's 1,720 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Talbot County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Talbot 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 Talbot County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Trappe's 1,720 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Trappe you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,720 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 Trappe-wide figureread your own land →