Crestwood Village, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, 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 Crestwood 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 Crestwood 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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Crestwood Village — the short answer
Crestwood Village, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Crestwood Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Crestwood Village's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Crestwood Village
Each reading below is measured for Crestwood Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCrestwood Village runs about 211 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
MeasuredCrestwood Village 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 Crestwood Village is in
Crestwood Village sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Crestwood Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ocean County.
What Grows in Crestwood Village
Every plant below cleared Crestwood Village's own zone 7a and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Crestwood Village?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 Crestwood Village
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Crestwood Village, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Crestwood Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Crestwood Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 290586-- PW 5Nitrate · 450 ft
- 291184-- IrrNitrate · 1800 ft
- 290487-- PW 3Nitrate · 1900 ft
- 291211-- IrrNitrate · 2000 ft
- 290677-- Cong 1Nitrate · 2200 ft
- 291212-- IrrNitrate · 2400 ft
- 290735-- PW 7Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- CRESTWOOD MANAGEMENT COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 290483-- 1-1965Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- CUMBERLAND GULF 061967Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MANCHESTER TWP WATER UTILITY - EASTERNPFAS · 0.6 mi
- MANCHESTER TWP WATER UTILITY - WESTERNPFAS · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Crestwood 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 Crestwood Village.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Crestwood Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Crestwood Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Crestwood Village, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Crestwood Village — Nitrate (498 sites) and Superfund (16 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Crestwood 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 Crestwood Village average
Your land is one point inside Crestwood Village
Everything above resolves to Crestwood Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Crestwood Village Average
Crestwood Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Crestwood Village
- ●One soil character for all of Crestwood Village
- ●Frost dates read at Crestwood Village's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Crestwood Village's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Crestwood Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Crestwood Village, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Crestwood Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Crestwood Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Crestwood Village average
How we know this about Crestwood 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 Crestwood 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 Crestwood Village
When does frost risk typically end in Crestwood Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Crestwood Village typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Crestwood Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Crestwood Village typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Crestwood Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Crestwood Village sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 18, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Crestwood Village?
The federal record around Crestwood Village runs heavier than most — 896 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (498), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Crestwood Village?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Crestwood Village's scale — its 7a band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Crestwood 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 Crestwood Village’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Crestwood Village's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,735 acres it covers and 896 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Crestwood Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Crestwood Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 1 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 896 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Crestwood Village, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Crestwood Village's boundary and the 2,735 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Crestwood Village's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Crestwood Villagelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Crestwood Village's 2,735 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 Crestwood Village's 2,735 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Crestwood 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 2,735 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Crestwood Village-wide figureread your own land →