Green Village, 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.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Green 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 Green Village 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 Green Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Green Village — the short answer
Green Village, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Green Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Green Village's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Green Village
Each reading below is measured for Green Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGreen Village runs about 212 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
MeasuredGreen 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 Green Village is in
Green Village sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Green Village's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Morris County is mostly Northeastern Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Green Village
Every plant below cleared Green Village's own zone 7a and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Green Village?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Green Village
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Green Village, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Green Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Green Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GREEN VILLAGE GARAGEBrownfields · 1300 ft
- GREEN VILLAGE GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- ROLLING KNOLLS LFSuperfund · 0.5 mi
- A H FERBER INC CONTRACTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- HEYL ROSES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- TAX OFFICE AND PAL BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- FORMER HICKORY TREE GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- EXXON 3-7633Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- COST CUTTERS OF CHATHAM 40Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- CHATHAM TWP DPWUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- GREEN VILLAGE NJ 0246Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- PMG 8032Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Green 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 Green Village.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Green Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Green Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Green Village, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Green Village — Superfund (70 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (1,654 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Green 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 Green Village average
Your land is one point inside Green Village
Everything above resolves to Green Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Green Village Average
Green Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Green Village
- ●One soil character for all of Green Village
- ●Frost dates read at Green Village's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Green Village's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Green Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Green Village, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Green Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Green Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Green Village average
How we know this about Green 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 Green 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 Green Village
When does frost risk typically end in Green Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Green Village typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Green Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Green Village typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Green Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Green Village sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 20, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Green Village?
The federal record around Green Village runs heavier than most — 2,604 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,654), the nearest Brownfields 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 Green Village?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Green Village's scale — its 7a band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Green 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 Green Village’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Green Village's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,500 acres it covers and 2,604 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Green Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Green Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 3 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,604 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Green Village, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Green Village's boundary and the 1,500 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Green Village sits in the Northern Piedmont — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Green Villagelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Green Village's 1,500 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Morris County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Morris 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 Morris County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Green Village's 1,500 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Green 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 1,500 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Green Village-wide figureread your own land →