Manasquan, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Manasquan, 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 Manasquan lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Manasquan — the short answer
Manasquan, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 245 days between hard freezes, across 883 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~245
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 883 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 Manasquan's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Manasquan's 245-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Manasquan
Each reading below is measured for Manasquan itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredManasquan runs about 245 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
MeasuredManasquan 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 Manasquan is in
Manasquan sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Manasquan's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monmouth County.
What Grows in Manasquan
Every plant below cleared Manasquan's own zone 7b and its 245-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Manasquan?
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 Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Manasquan
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Manasquan, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Manasquan
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Manasquan. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GLIMMER GLASS LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- DEEP CREEK COVE LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- ROBINSON'S ANCHORAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- US COAST GUARD ELECTRONIC SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- SMRSA MANASQUAN PSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- MARRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- GREEN AVENUE PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BRIELLE ANCHORAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- HOFFMAN'S FUEL SUPPLY LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 21 WYCKOFF AVENUEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BRIELLE MARINE BASIN INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- LOBSTER SHANTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Manasquan'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 Manasquan.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Manasquan
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Manasquan
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Manasquan, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Manasquan — PFAS (13 sites) and Superfund (19 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Manasquan
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 Manasquan average
Your land is one point inside Manasquan
Everything above resolves to Manasquan as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 883 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 Manasquan Average
Manasquan Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Manasquan
- ●One soil character for all of Manasquan
- ●Frost dates read at Manasquan's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Manasquan's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Manasquan
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Manasquan, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Manasquan averages can't show:
We read public map data around Manasquan — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Manasquan average
How we know this about Manasquan
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 Manasquan’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 Manasquan
When does frost risk typically end in Manasquan?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Manasquan typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Manasquan?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Manasquan typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 245 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Manasquan?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Manasquan sees about 245 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Nov 9, about 210 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Manasquan?
The federal record around Manasquan runs heavier than most — 1,408 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (908), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Manasquan?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Manasquan's scale — its 7b band and its 245-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Manasquan'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 Manasquan’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Manasquan's own scale — its own ~245-day season between 28°F freezes, the 883 acres it covers and 1,408 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Manasquan's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Manasquan's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 23 and the ~245-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,408 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Manasquan, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Manasquan's boundary and the 883 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~245-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Manasquan's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Manasquanlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Manasquan's 883 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monmouth County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monmouth 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 Monmouth County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Manasquan's 883 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Manasquan you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 883 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 Manasquan-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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