Jobstown, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Jobstown, 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 Jobstown 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 Jobstown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Jobstown — the short answer
Jobstown, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~226
- 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 7b is Jobstown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jobstown's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jobstown
Each reading below is measured for Jobstown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJobstown runs about 226 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
MeasuredJobstown 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 Jobstown is in
Jobstown sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Jobstown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Burlington County.
What Grows in Jobstown
Every plant below cleared Jobstown's own zone 7b and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jobstown?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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 Jobstown
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Jobstown, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Jobstown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jobstown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SPRINGFIELD TWP MUNICIPAL BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- MICHAEL & KATHRINE SCHENUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- KAUFFMAN & MINTEER, INC.Superfund · 0.5 mi
- 050440-- Rhodia 1 ObsNitrate · 1.0 mi
- HELIS STOCK FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- KAUFFMAN & MINTEER INC AKA K & M, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- COMMERCIAL CREDIT SERVICES CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- MID-ATLANTIC REARCH FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- 052017-- MW-2RNitrate · 1.5 mi
- EXXON 3-6618Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- REUBEN GREENBERG INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- BELL ATLANTIC MOBILE SYSTEMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jobstown'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 Jobstown.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jobstown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jobstown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Jobstown, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 15 sites within ~10 miles of Jobstown. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Jobstown
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Jobstown
Everything above resolves to Jobstown 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 Jobstown Average
Jobstown Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Jobstown
- ●One soil character for all of Jobstown
- ●Frost dates read at Jobstown's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jobstown's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Jobstown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Jobstown, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Jobstown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Jobstown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jobstown average
How we know this about Jobstown
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 Jobstown’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 Jobstown
When does frost risk typically end in Jobstown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jobstown typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Jobstown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jobstown typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jobstown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jobstown sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 28, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jobstown?
The federal record around Jobstown runs heavier than most — 1,164 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (617), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Jobstown?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Jobstown's scale — its 7b band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jobstown'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 Jobstown’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Jobstown's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,101 acres it covers and 1,164 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jobstown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Jobstown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 11 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,164 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jobstown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jobstown's boundary and the 2,101 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Jobstown's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Jobstownlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Jobstown's 2,101 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Burlington County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Burlington 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 Burlington County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jobstown's 2,101 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jobstown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,101 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Jobstown-wide figureread your own land →
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