Midland Park, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Midland Park, 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 Midland Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Midland Park — the short answer
Midland Park, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- 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
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Midland Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Midland Park's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Midland Park
Each reading below is measured for Midland Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMidland Park runs about 225 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
MeasuredMidland Park 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 Midland Park is in
Midland Park sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Midland Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bergen County.
What Grows in Midland Park
Every plant below cleared Midland Park's own zone 7a and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Midland Park?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (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. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Midland Park
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Midland Park, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Midland Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Midland Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NOVELL SALES CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- MIDLAND PARK U-SAVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- ITT MARLOWUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- MIDLAND PARK AMBULANCE CORPS INCToxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
- MIDLAND PARK BD OF EDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- MIDLAND PARK DPW/FIRE COMPLEXUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- OKS REALTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- OKS REALTY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- D T ALLEN GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- SHARP SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- CROWN FINISHING CORPToxics Release Inventory · 2300 ft
- JACOBSEN LANDSCAPE DESIGNUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Midland Park'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 Midland Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Midland Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Midland Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Midland Park, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Midland Park — Superfund (91 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (2,843 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Midland Park
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 Midland Park average
Your land is one point inside Midland Park
Everything above resolves to Midland Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Midland Park Average
Midland Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Midland Park
- ●One soil character for all of Midland Park
- ●Frost dates read at Midland Park's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Midland Park's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Midland Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Midland Park, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Midland Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Midland Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Midland Park average
How we know this about Midland Park
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 Midland Park’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 Midland Park
When does frost risk typically end in Midland Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Midland Park typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Midland Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Midland Park 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 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Midland Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Midland Park sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 28, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Midland Park?
The federal record around Midland Park runs heavier than most — 4,505 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (2,843), 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 Midland Park?
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 Midland Park's scale — its 7a band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Midland Park'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 Midland Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Midland Park's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,005 acres it covers and 4,505 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Midland Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Midland Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 11 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 4,505 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Midland Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Midland Park's boundary and the 1,005 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~225-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Midland Park's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Midland Parklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Midland Park's 1,005 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 Midland Park's 1,005 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Midland Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,005 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 Midland Park-wide figureread your own land →