Carlls Corner, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Carlls Corner, 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 Carlls Corner lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Carlls Corner — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Carlls Corner — the short answer
Carlls Corner, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 28
- 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
- ~233
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Carlls Corner's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Carlls Corner's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Carlls Corner
Each reading below is measured for Carlls Corner itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCarlls Corner runs about 233 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
MeasuredCarlls Corner 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 Carlls Corner is in
Carlls Corner sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Carlls Corner's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cumberland County.
What Grows in Carlls Corner
Every plant below cleared Carlls Corner's own zone 7b and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Carlls Corner?
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 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 28 (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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Carlls Corner
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Carlls Corner, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Carlls Corner
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Carlls Corner. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GENTILE BROS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- CARLLS CORNER ENERGY CENTERToxics Release Inventory · 850 ft
- NATIONAL FREIGHTUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- FARM CREDIT SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- WALMART STORE #5384Brownfields · 1500 ft
- GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CARLLS CORNER GENERATING STATIONBrownfields · 1500 ft
- CARLLS CORNER GENERATING STATIONToxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
- CICCIO'S SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- VACANT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- HESS STATION 30253Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- NEW JERSEY STATE POLICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Carlls Corner'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 Carlls Corner.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Carlls Corner
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Carlls Corner
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Carlls Corner, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Carlls Corner — Superfund (20 sites) and Nitrate (330 sites). 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Carlls Corner
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 Carlls Corner average
Your land is one point inside Carlls Corner
Everything above resolves to Carlls Corner as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Carlls Corner Average
Carlls Corner Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Carlls Corner
- ●One soil character for all of Carlls Corner
- ●Frost dates read at Carlls Corner's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Carlls Corner's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Carlls Corner
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Carlls Corner, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Carlls Corner averages can't show:
We read public map data around Carlls Corner — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Carlls Corner average
How we know this about Carlls Corner
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 Carlls Corner’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 Carlls Corner
When does frost risk typically end in Carlls Corner?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Carlls Corner typically lands around Mar 28, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Carlls Corner?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Carlls Corner 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 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Carlls Corner?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Carlls Corner sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Nov 2, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Carlls Corner?
The federal record around Carlls Corner runs heavier than most — 950 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (490), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Carlls Corner?
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 Carlls Corner's scale — its 7b band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Carlls Corner'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 Carlls Corner’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Carlls Corner's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,068 acres it covers and 950 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Carlls Corner's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Carlls Corner's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 16 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 950 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Carlls Corner, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Carlls Corner's boundary and the 1,068 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Carlls Corner's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Carlls Cornerlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Carlls Corner's 1,068 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cumberland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cumberland County
- The growing challenges every New Jersey grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New Jersey
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Cumberland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Carlls Corner's 1,068 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Carlls Corner you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,068 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 Carlls Corner-wide figureread your own land →