Cedar Glen Lakes, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — 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, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Cedar Glen Lakes, 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 Cedar Glen Lakes lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Cedar Glen Lakes — the short answer
Cedar Glen Lakes, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 444 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 444 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 7a is Cedar Glen Lakes's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cedar Glen Lakes's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cedar Glen Lakes
Each reading below is measured for Cedar Glen Lakes itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCedar Glen Lakes runs about 221 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
MeasuredCedar Glen Lakes sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Cedar Glen Lakes is in
Cedar Glen Lakes sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Cedar Glen Lakes's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ocean County.
What Grows in Cedar Glen Lakes
Every plant below cleared Cedar Glen Lakes's own zone 7a and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cedar Glen Lakes?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — 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 Cedar Glen Lakes
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Cedar Glen Lakes, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Cedar Glen Lakes
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cedar Glen Lakes. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CEDAR GLEN LAKES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- 290489-- 2-1972Nitrate · 1600 ft
- 290488-- PW 1Nitrate · 2200 ft
- ALLYN MFG CO INCBrownfields · 2200 ft
- NJ BELL TELEPHONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- 290755-- Ind 2Nitrate · 2400 ft
- MANCHESTER TWP BOARD OF EDUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- EXXON R/S 3-8993Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MANCHESTER TWP WELL #4Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #3972Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- WAWA FOOD MARKETS #948Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- WAWA FOOD MARKET #948Brownfields · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cedar Glen Lakes'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 Cedar Glen Lakes.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cedar Glen Lakes
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cedar Glen Lakes
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cedar Glen Lakes, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Cedar Glen Lakes — Nitrate (430 sites) and Superfund (15 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Cedar Glen Lakes
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 Cedar Glen Lakes average
Your land is one point inside Cedar Glen Lakes
Everything above resolves to Cedar Glen Lakes as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 444 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 Cedar Glen Lakes Average
Cedar Glen Lakes Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Cedar Glen Lakes
- ●One soil character for all of Cedar Glen Lakes
- ●Frost dates read at Cedar Glen Lakes's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cedar Glen Lakes's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cedar Glen Lakes
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cedar Glen Lakes, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cedar Glen Lakes averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cedar Glen Lakes — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cedar Glen Lakes average
How we know this about Cedar Glen Lakes
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 Cedar Glen Lakes’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 Cedar Glen Lakes
When does frost risk typically end in Cedar Glen Lakes?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cedar Glen Lakes typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Cedar Glen Lakes?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cedar Glen Lakes typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cedar Glen Lakes?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cedar Glen Lakes sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 25, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cedar Glen Lakes?
The federal record around Cedar Glen Lakes runs heavier than most — 606 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (430), 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 Cedar Glen Lakes?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cedar Glen Lakes's scale — its 7a band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cedar Glen Lakes'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 Cedar Glen Lakes’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Cedar Glen Lakes's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 444 acres it covers and 606 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cedar Glen Lakes's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cedar Glen Lakes's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 8 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 606 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cedar Glen Lakes, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cedar Glen Lakes's boundary and the 444 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cedar Glen Lakes's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Cedar Glen Lakeslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cedar Glen Lakes's 444 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ocean County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ocean 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 Ocean County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cedar Glen Lakes's 444 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cedar Glen Lakes you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 444 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 Cedar Glen Lakes-wide figureread your own land →