Eatontown, 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.
The conditions favor cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Eatontown, 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 Eatontown 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 Eatontown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Eatontown — the short answer
Eatontown, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 241 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~241
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Eatontown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eatontown's 241-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eatontown
Each reading below is measured for Eatontown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEatontown runs about 241 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
MeasuredEatontown 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 Eatontown is in
Eatontown sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eatontown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monmouth County.
What Grows in Eatontown
Every plant below cleared Eatontown's own zone 7b and its 241-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eatontown?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — 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 Eatontown
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Eatontown, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Eatontown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eatontown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MONMOUTH AUTO DIAGNOSTICSUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- EXCELLENCY ENTERPRISE LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- BOSCOVS DEPT STORE @ MONMOUTH MALLBrownfields · 1000 ft
- PETCO STORE #3825Brownfields · 1300 ft
- MONMOUTH MALLBrownfields · 1400 ft
- ROUTE 35 & ROUTE 36 INTERSECTION PROJECTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #17884Brownfields · 1600 ft
- SATURN OF EATONTOWNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- TARGET STORE T3432Brownfields · 1800 ft
- ABRAHAM & STRAUS-MONMOUTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- J C PENNEY COMPANY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- LOWE'S OF EATONTOWN, NJ #1548Brownfields · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eatontown'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 Eatontown.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eatontown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eatontown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eatontown, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 975 sites within ~10 miles of Eatontown. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Eatontown
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 Eatontown average
Your land is one point inside Eatontown
Everything above resolves to Eatontown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Eatontown Average
Eatontown Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Eatontown
- ●One soil character for all of Eatontown
- ●Frost dates read at Eatontown's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eatontown's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eatontown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eatontown, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eatontown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eatontown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eatontown average
How we know this about Eatontown
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 Eatontown’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 Eatontown
When does frost risk typically end in Eatontown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eatontown typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Eatontown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eatontown typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 241 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eatontown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eatontown sees about 241 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Nov 7, about 206 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eatontown?
The federal record around Eatontown runs heavier than most — 1,386 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (975), 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 Eatontown?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eatontown's scale — its 7b band and its 241-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eatontown'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 Eatontown’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Eatontown's own scale — its own ~241-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,738 acres it covers and 1,386 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eatontown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eatontown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 21 and the ~241-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,386 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eatontown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eatontown's boundary and the 3,738 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~241-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eatontown's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Eatontownlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eatontown's 3,738 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monmouth County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monmouth 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 Monmouth County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eatontown's 3,738 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eatontown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,738 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 Eatontown-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across New JerseyEatontown sits outside our named growing regions, so New Jersey as a whole is its closest context here.
Nearby growing guides