Holiday City-Berkeley, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Holiday City-Berkeley, 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 Holiday City-Berkeley 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 Holiday City-Berkeley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Holiday City-Berkeley — the short answer
Holiday City-Berkeley, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- 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 7a is Holiday City-Berkeley's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Holiday City-Berkeley's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Holiday City-Berkeley
Each reading below is measured for Holiday City-Berkeley itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHoliday City-Berkeley runs about 208 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
MeasuredHoliday City-Berkeley 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 Holiday City-Berkeley is in
Holiday City-Berkeley sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Holiday City-Berkeley's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ocean County.
What Grows in Holiday City-Berkeley
Every plant below cleared Holiday City-Berkeley's own zone 7a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Holiday City-Berkeley?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — 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 Holiday City-Berkeley
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Holiday City-Berkeley, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Holiday City-Berkeley
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Holiday City-Berkeley. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SUEZ WATER TOMS RIVERPFAS · 1.0 mi
- 291189-- IrrNitrate · 1.0 mi
- 290727-- Marquis StNitrate · 1.2 mi
- 291190-- IrrNitrate · 1.3 mi
- 291188-- IrrNitrate · 1.4 mi
- H C B SHAREOWNERS CORP INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- 291213-- IrrNitrate · 1.5 mi
- ST CATHERINE TANKBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- FRITO-LAY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- RF DOSS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- OCEAN COUNTY AIRPARK HANGARUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- ROBERT J MILLER AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Holiday City-Berkeley'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 Holiday City-Berkeley.
Total Sites
1,231
within ~10 miles of Holiday City-Berkeley
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
23 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Holiday City-Berkeley
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Holiday City-Berkeley
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Holiday City-Berkeley, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Holiday City-Berkeley — Nitrate (494 sites) and Superfund (23 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Holiday City-Berkeley
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 Holiday City-Berkeley average
Your land is one point inside Holiday City-Berkeley
Everything above resolves to Holiday City-Berkeley 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 Holiday City-Berkeley Average
Holiday City-Berkeley Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Holiday City-Berkeley
- ●One soil character for all of Holiday City-Berkeley
- ●Frost dates read at Holiday City-Berkeley's scale: Apr 6 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Holiday City-Berkeley's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Holiday City-Berkeley
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Holiday City-Berkeley, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Holiday City-Berkeley averages can't show:
We read public map data around Holiday City-Berkeley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Holiday City-Berkeley average
How we know this about Holiday City-Berkeley
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 Holiday City-Berkeley’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 Holiday City-Berkeley
When does frost risk typically end in Holiday City-Berkeley?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Holiday City-Berkeley typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Holiday City-Berkeley?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Holiday City-Berkeley typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Holiday City-Berkeley?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Holiday City-Berkeley sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 17, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Holiday City-Berkeley?
The federal record around Holiday City-Berkeley runs heavier than most — 1,231 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (513), the nearest PFAS record about 1.0 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 Holiday City-Berkeley?
From about Oct 1 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 Oct 31 (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 Oct 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Holiday City-Berkeley's scale — its 7a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Holiday City-Berkeley'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 Holiday City-Berkeley’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Holiday City-Berkeley's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,818 acres it covers and 1,231 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Holiday City-Berkeley's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Holiday City-Berkeley's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Oct 31 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,231 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Holiday City-Berkeley, the closest PFAS record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Holiday City-Berkeley's boundary and the 3,818 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Holiday City-Berkeley's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Holiday City-Berkeleylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Holiday City-Berkeley's 3,818 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 Holiday City-Berkeley's 3,818 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Holiday City-Berkeley you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,818 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS record about 1.0 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 Holiday City-Berkeley-wide figureread your own land →