What Grows in Lakeside-Beebe Run, New Jersey

USDA Zones 7b · 179 acres

Lakeside-Beebe Run, 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.

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Even in Lakeside-Beebe Run, 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 Lakeside-Beebe Run 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 Lakeside-Beebe Run — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.

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Lakeside-Beebe Run — the short answer

Lakeside-Beebe Run, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 234 days between hard freezes, across 179 acres of town.

USDA zone
7b
USDA PHZM 2023
Last hard freeze (28°F)
Mar 27
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
First hard freeze (28°F)
Nov 16
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
Days between freezes
~234
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
Town area
179 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

7b7b
3a (Cold)13b (Hot)

Zone 7b is Lakeside-Beebe Run's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lakeside-Beebe Run's 234-day season, see what your own ground reads.

Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.

What this means for growing in Lakeside-Beebe Run

Each reading below is measured for Lakeside-Beebe Run itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.

Season length

Measured

Lakeside-Beebe Run runs about 234 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

Measured

Lakeside-Beebe Run 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 Lakeside-Beebe Run is in

Lakeside-Beebe Run sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lakeside-Beebe Run's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cumberland County.

What that means for soil

What Grows in Lakeside-Beebe Run

Every plant below cleared Lakeside-Beebe Run's own zone 7b and its 234-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.

cabbage, photograph
Growing cabbage in New JerseyZones 2–11Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
prickly pear, photograph
New Jersey prickly pear guideZones 5–10Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
California poppy, photograph
California poppy in New JerseyZones 6–10Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 1 zone of cold margin.
collard greens, photograph
Collard greens: New Jersey growing notesZones 2–11Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
fig, photograph
Growing fig in New JerseyZones 6–10Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 1 zone of cold margin.
lavender, photograph
New Jersey lavender guideZones 5–8Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
garlic, photograph
Garlic in New JerseyZones 2–10Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
grape, photograph
Grape: New Jersey growing notesZones 6–9Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 1 zone of cold margin.
Turkish rocket, photograph
Growing turkish rocket in New JerseyLakeside-Beebe Run's 234 days clear the ~90 it needs.
kale, photograph
New Jersey kale guideZones 2–11Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
hazelnut, photograph
Hazelnut in New JerseyZones 4–9Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 3 zones of cold margin.
lentil, photograph
Lentil: New Jersey growing notesZones 2–11Lakeside-Beebe Run's 234 days clear the ~70 it needs.
pawpaw, photograph
Growing pawpaw in New JerseyZones 5–9Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
okra, photograph
New Jersey okra guideZones 2–12Lakeside-Beebe Run's 234 days clear the ~50 it needs.
potato, photograph
Potato in New JerseyZones 2–11Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
iris, photograph
Iris: New Jersey growing notesZones 3–10Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 4 zones of cold margin.
sunflower, photograph
Growing sunflower in New JerseyZones 2–11Lakeside-Beebe Run's 234 days clear the ~70 it needs.
Apache plume, photograph
New Jersey apache plume guideZones 5–11Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
hops, photograph
Hops in New JerseyZones 3–8Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 4 zones of cold margin.
hosta, photograph
Hosta: New Jersey growing notesZones 3–8Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 4 zones of cold margin.
French marigold, photograph
Growing french marigold in New JerseyLakeside-Beebe Run's 234 days clear the ~50 it needs.
holly, photograph
New Jersey holly guideZones 5–11Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
Virginia creeper, photograph
Virginia creeper in New JerseyZones 3–9Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 4 zones of cold margin.
tulip, photograph
Tulip: New Jersey growing notesZones 6–8Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 1 zone of cold margin.
Douglas fir, photograph
Growing douglas fir in New JerseyZones 4–10Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 3 zones of cold margin.
Ethiopian mustard, photograph
New Jersey ethiopian mustard guideZones 4–10Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 3 zones of cold margin.
Kentucky bluegrass, botanical illustration
Kentucky bluegrass in New JerseyZones 2–7Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
redbud, photograph
Redbud: New Jersey growing notesZones 5–11Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
Japanese millet, photograph
Growing japanese millet in New JerseyZones 5–10Lakeside-Beebe Run's 234 days clear the ~45 it needs.
ajuga, photograph
New Jersey ajuga guideZones 5–11Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.

Is it too late to plant in Lakeside-Beebe Run?

Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 16 — 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 Lakeside-Beebe Run

Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Lakeside-Beebe Run, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.

What's on the federal record near Lakeside-Beebe Run

Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lakeside-Beebe Run. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.

  1. MARY ELMER LAKE FIRE CO BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
  2. BRIDGETON CITY WATER DEPTPFAS · 1.1 mi
  3. 590 SHILOH PIKEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
  4. HOPEWELL SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
  5. JOHN L & JEANETTE S MULFORDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
  6. HOPEWELL VALEROUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
  7. LAUREL STREET SUBSTATIONBrownfields · 1.3 mi
  8. ROBERT HAMPTON INC (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
  9. 391 W BROAD STUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
  10. 110022-- PW 12Nitrate · 1.4 mi
  11. 111017-- Suscp24 DomNitrate · 1.4 mi
  12. NEW JERSEY DOT - RTE 49 & BARRETTS RUN RDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi

6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map

Measured from Lakeside-Beebe Run'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 Lakeside-Beebe Run.

Total Sites

574

within ~10 miles of Lakeside-Beebe Run

Risk Level

Elevated

Highest-severity

3 Superfund sites

Severity Distribution

within ~10 miles of Lakeside-Beebe Run

High1Moderate338Low235

Highest-Severity Sites

110002-- 2 Rep - Emergency Well
Nitrate Monitoring · Well
110002-- 2 Rep - Emergency Well
Nitrate Monitoring · Well
110003-- Pw 6
Nitrate Monitoring · Well
110003-- Pw 6
Nitrate Monitoring · Well

A note from Gnorman

What an experienced grower watches for around here

In and around Lakeside-Beebe Run, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 290 sites within ~10 miles of Lakeside-Beebe Run. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.

Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.

Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).

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Your land is one point inside Lakeside-Beebe Run

Everything above resolves to Lakeside-Beebe Run as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 179 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 Lakeside-Beebe Run Average

Lakeside-Beebe Run Average

  • USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Lakeside-Beebe Run
  • One soil character for all of Lakeside-Beebe Run
  • Frost dates read at Lakeside-Beebe Run's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 16

YOUR Parcel

  • Your exact zone, not Lakeside-Beebe Run's 7b
  • Your SSURGO soil type & pH
  • Your sun exposure, cast in 3D

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Three things about your lot that Lakeside-Beebe Run averages can't show:

Your soil pHYour frost-free days — Lakeside-Beebe Run averages 234Your sun & shade

We read public map data around Lakeside-Beebe Run — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.

25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lakeside-Beebe Run average

How we know this about Lakeside-Beebe Run

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 Lakeside-Beebe Run’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 Lakeside-Beebe Run

When does frost risk typically end in Lakeside-Beebe Run?

The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lakeside-Beebe Run typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.

When is the first frost in Lakeside-Beebe Run?

The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lakeside-Beebe Run typically arrives around Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 2, so the watching starts about Oct 17 — about 234 days after the spring freeze cleared.

How long is the growing season in Lakeside-Beebe Run?

Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lakeside-Beebe Run sees about 234 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Nov 2, about 199 days.

Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lakeside-Beebe Run?

The federal record around Lakeside-Beebe Run is a meaningful one — 574 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (290), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.

How do I protect my plants from frost in Lakeside-Beebe Run?

From about Oct 17 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.

Everything above is measured at Lakeside-Beebe Run's scale — its 7b band and its 234-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lakeside-Beebe Run'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 Lakeside-Beebe Run’s own scale

7 of the readings below were taken at Lakeside-Beebe Run's own scale — its own ~234-day season between 28°F freezes, the 179 acres it covers and 574 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.

Measured here

  • Lakeside-Beebe Run's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
  • Lakeside-Beebe Run's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 16 and the ~234-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
  • 574 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lakeside-Beebe Run, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
  • Lakeside-Beebe Run's boundary and the 179 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
  • Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~234-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
  • The ecoregion at Lakeside-Beebe Run's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
  • A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lakeside-Beebe Runlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice

Inherited from a wider read

  • Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lakeside-Beebe Run's 179 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cumberland County
  • Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cumberland 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 Cumberland County

What this page can’t tell you

  • The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lakeside-Beebe Run's 179 acreswhy one lot differs from the next
  • Which side of Lakeside-Beebe Run you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 179 acresreading your own microclimate
  • How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Lakeside-Beebe Run-wide figureread your own land
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