Milmay, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Milmay, 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 Milmay 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 Milmay — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Milmay — the short answer
Milmay, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Milmay's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Milmay's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Milmay
Each reading below is measured for Milmay itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMilmay runs about 214 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
MeasuredMilmay 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 Milmay is in
Milmay sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Milmay's own centroid rather than borrowed from Atlantic County.
What Grows in Milmay
Every plant below cleared Milmay's own zone 7a and its 214-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Milmay?
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 Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — 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 Milmay
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Milmay, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Milmay
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Milmay. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MILMAY AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 110137-- Ragovin 2100 ObsNitrate · 1.3 mi
- 110135-- Ragovin 3100FtNitrate · 1.3 mi
- 110133-- Ragovin 3400FtNitrate · 1.3 mi
- 110134-- Ragovin 3300FtNitrate · 1.3 mi
- 110136-- Ragovin 2600FtNitrate · 1.3 mi
- 110132-- Ragovin 3600Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- 010074-- Irr 2Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- SPARK ELECTRIC SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- 011406-- DomNitrate · 2.6 mi
- 011436-- Michaletti DriveNitrate · 2.6 mi
- 010601-- 1960Nitrate · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Milmay'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 Milmay.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Milmay
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Milmay
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Milmay, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 24 sites within ~10 miles of Milmay. 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.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Milmay
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 Milmay average
Your land is one point inside Milmay
Everything above resolves to Milmay as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Milmay Average
Milmay Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Milmay
- ●One soil character for all of Milmay
- ●Frost dates read at Milmay's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Milmay's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Milmay
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Milmay, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Milmay averages can't show:
We read public map data around Milmay — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Milmay average
How we know this about Milmay
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 Milmay’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 Milmay
When does frost risk typically end in Milmay?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Milmay typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Milmay?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Milmay typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Milmay?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Milmay sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 21, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Milmay?
The federal record around Milmay runs heavier than most — 747 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (413), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Milmay?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Milmay's scale — its 7a band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Milmay'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 Milmay’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Milmay's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,252 acres it covers and 747 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Milmay's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Milmay's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 4 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 747 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Milmay, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Milmay's boundary and the 5,252 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~214-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Milmay's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Milmaylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Milmay's 5,252 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Atlantic County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Atlantic 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 Atlantic County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Milmay's 5,252 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Milmay you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,252 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Milmay-wide figureread your own land →
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