Leisure Village East, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Leisure Village East, 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 Leisure Village East lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Leisure Village East — the short answer
Leisure Village East, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 993 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 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 993 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 Leisure Village East's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Leisure Village East's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Leisure Village East
Each reading below is measured for Leisure Village East itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLeisure Village East runs about 221 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
MeasuredLeisure Village East 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 Leisure Village East is in
Leisure Village East sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Leisure Village East's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ocean County.
What Grows in Leisure Village East
Every plant below cleared Leisure Village East's own zone 7a and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Leisure Village East?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 12 — 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 Leisure Village East
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Leisure Village East, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Leisure Village East
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Leisure Village East. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LEISURE VILLAGE EAST ASSOCIATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- HOME DEPOT STORE #902Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- LEISURE VILLAGE ASSOCIATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 290431-- PW 2Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- 291073-- 10 Kettle ShorerockNitrate · 0.8 mi
- 290432-- PW 6Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- LEISURE VILLAGE SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- LEISURE PARK VENTURE LIMITED PARTNERSHIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- 290645-- IrrNitrate · 1.0 mi
- HOLIDAY CITY STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- POLYURETHANE MACHINERY CORPORATIONBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- COSTCO GASOLINE LOC #739Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Leisure Village East'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 Leisure Village East.
Total Sites
1,649
within ~10 miles of Leisure Village East
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
28 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Leisure Village East
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Leisure Village East
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Leisure Village East, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Leisure Village East — Superfund (28 sites) and Nitrate (448 sites). 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
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 Leisure Village East
Everything above resolves to Leisure Village East as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 993 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 Leisure Village East Average
Leisure Village East Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Leisure Village East
- ●One soil character for all of Leisure Village East
- ●Frost dates read at Leisure Village East's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Leisure Village East's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Leisure Village East
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Leisure Village East, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Leisure Village East averages can't show:
We read public map data around Leisure Village East — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Leisure Village East average
How we know this about Leisure Village East
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 Leisure Village East’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 Leisure Village East
When does frost risk typically end in Leisure Village East?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Leisure Village East 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 Leisure Village East?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Leisure Village East typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Leisure Village East?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Leisure Village East sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 29, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Leisure Village East?
The federal record around Leisure Village East runs heavier than most — 1,649 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (898), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Leisure Village East?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Leisure Village East's scale — its 7a band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Leisure Village East'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 Leisure Village East’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Leisure Village East's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 993 acres it covers and 1,649 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Leisure Village East's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Leisure Village East's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 12 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,649 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Leisure Village East, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Leisure Village East's boundary and the 993 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Leisure Village East's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Leisure Village Eastlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Leisure Village East's 993 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 Leisure Village East's 993 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Leisure Village East you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 993 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Leisure Village East-wide figureread your own land →
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