Carneys Point, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Carneys Point, 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 Carneys Point 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 Carneys Point — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Carneys Point — the short answer
Carneys Point, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 248 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~248
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Carneys Point's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Carneys Point's 248-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Carneys Point
Each reading below is measured for Carneys Point itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCarneys Point runs about 248 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
MeasuredCarneys Point 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 Carneys Point is in
Carneys Point sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Carneys Point's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Salem County is mostly Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Carneys Point
Every plant below cleared Carneys Point's own zone 7b and its 248-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Carneys Point?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Carneys Point
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Carneys Point, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Carneys Point
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Carneys Point. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LAXMI INC VILLAGE GETTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- CARNEYS OIL LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- 330335-- Carney Pt 7Nitrate · 1900 ft
- A CLEMENTE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- CARNEY'S POINT REST AREAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CARNEYS POINT SEWERAGE AUTHORITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- LOU PAGNOTTO SER CTR LLC T/A LOUS SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 330342-- Penns Grove 24Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- UNION CARBIDE - LINDE DIVISIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- PAGANO PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- 330333-- Carney Pt 5Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- 330334-- Carney Pt 6Nitrate · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Carneys Point'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 Carneys Point.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Carneys Point
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Carneys Point
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Carneys Point, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 40 sites within ~10 miles of Carneys Point. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Carneys Point
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 Carneys Point average
Your land is one point inside Carneys Point
Everything above resolves to Carneys Point as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Carneys Point Average
Carneys Point Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Carneys Point
- ●One soil character for all of Carneys Point
- ●Frost dates read at Carneys Point's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Carneys Point's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Carneys Point
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Carneys Point, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Carneys Point averages can't show:
We read public map data around Carneys Point — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Carneys Point average
How we know this about Carneys Point
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 Carneys Point’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 Carneys Point
When does frost risk typically end in Carneys Point?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Carneys Point typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Carneys Point?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Carneys Point typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 248 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Carneys Point?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Carneys Point sees about 248 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Nov 9, about 213 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Carneys Point?
The federal record around Carneys Point runs heavier than most — 2,568 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,268), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Carneys Point?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Carneys Point's scale — its 7b band and its 248-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Carneys Point'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 Carneys Point’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Carneys Point's own scale — its own ~248-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,363 acres it covers and 2,568 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Carneys Point's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Carneys Point's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 23 and the ~248-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,568 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Carneys Point, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Carneys Point's boundary and the 5,363 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~248-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Carneys Point sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Carneys Pointlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Carneys Point's 5,363 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Salem County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Salem 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 Salem County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Carneys Point's 5,363 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Carneys Point you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,363 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Carneys Point-wide figureread your own land →
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