Maywood, 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.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Maywood, 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 Maywood 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 Maywood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Maywood — the short answer
Maywood, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 239 days between hard freezes, across 824 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~239
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 824 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 Maywood's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Maywood's 239-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Maywood
Each reading below is measured for Maywood itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMaywood runs about 239 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
MeasuredMaywood 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 Maywood is in
Maywood sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Maywood's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bergen County.
What Grows in Maywood
Every plant below cleared Maywood's own zone 7b and its 239-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Maywood?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Maywood
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Maywood, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Maywood
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Maywood. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SODICO LLC NJ 0212Underground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- MAYWOOD SERVICE STATION INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- AUTO BODY TOWING SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- MAYWOOD AVE SCHOOLBrownfields · 750 ft
- FRANKS AUTO TECHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- VICTORS THREE DToxics Release Inventory · 1900 ft
- 230 WEST PASSAIC ST CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- TELEPHONICS INC (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- CIRCUIT REPRODUCTIONS CO INCBrownfields · 2200 ft
- PARK AVENUE BMWUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- PARK AVE MOTOR CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- TEX'S ROAD SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Maywood'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 Maywood.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Maywood
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Maywood
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Maywood, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Maywood — Superfund (119 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (5,326 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.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Maywood
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 Maywood average
Your land is one point inside Maywood
Everything above resolves to Maywood as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 824 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 Maywood Average
Maywood Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Maywood
- ●One soil character for all of Maywood
- ●Frost dates read at Maywood's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Maywood's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Maywood
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Maywood, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Maywood averages can't show:
We read public map data around Maywood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Maywood average
How we know this about Maywood
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 Maywood’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 Maywood
When does frost risk typically end in Maywood?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Maywood typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Maywood?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Maywood typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 239 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Maywood?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Maywood sees about 239 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Nov 6, about 204 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Maywood?
The federal record around Maywood runs heavier than most — 8,453 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (5,326), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Maywood?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Maywood's scale — its 7b band and its 239-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Maywood'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 Maywood’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Maywood's own scale — its own ~239-day season between 28°F freezes, the 824 acres it covers and 8,453 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Maywood's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Maywood's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 20 and the ~239-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 8,453 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Maywood, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Maywood's boundary and the 824 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~239-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Maywood's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Maywoodlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Maywood's 824 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bergen County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bergen 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 Bergen County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Maywood's 824 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Maywood you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 824 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Maywood-wide figureread your own land →