Mount Tabor, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Mount Tabor, 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 Mount Tabor lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mount Tabor — the short answer
Mount Tabor, New Jersey: USDA zone 6b, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 246 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 246 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 6b is Mount Tabor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mount Tabor's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mount Tabor
Each reading below is measured for Mount Tabor itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMount Tabor runs about 208 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
MeasuredMount Tabor sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Mount Tabor is in
Mount Tabor sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Mount Tabor's own centroid rather than borrowed from Morris County.
What Grows in Mount Tabor
Every plant below cleared Mount Tabor's own zone 6b and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mount Tabor?
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 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — 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 Mount Tabor
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Mount Tabor, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Mount Tabor
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mount Tabor. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MT TABOR COUNTRY CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- MOUNT TABOR PUMP STATION 6Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- CAMP MEETING ASSOCIATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- 1420 TABOR ROADUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- POWDER MILL SEWER PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- SHELL SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- REDMOND PRESS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- MECA ELECTRONICS INCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- MORRIS CNTY VOC SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- RAINBOW LAKES PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- YOUNGS GAS LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- B&B AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mount Tabor'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 Mount Tabor.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mount Tabor
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mount Tabor
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mount Tabor, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 67 sites within ~10 miles of Mount Tabor. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 Mount Tabor
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 Mount Tabor average
Your land is one point inside Mount Tabor
Everything above resolves to Mount Tabor as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 246 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 Mount Tabor Average
Mount Tabor Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Mount Tabor
- ●One soil character for all of Mount Tabor
- ●Frost dates read at Mount Tabor's scale: Apr 6 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mount Tabor's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mount Tabor
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mount Tabor, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mount Tabor averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mount Tabor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mount Tabor average
How we know this about Mount Tabor
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 Mount Tabor’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 Mount Tabor
When does frost risk typically end in Mount Tabor?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mount Tabor typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Mount Tabor?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mount Tabor typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mount Tabor?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mount Tabor sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 17, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mount Tabor?
The federal record around Mount Tabor runs heavier than most — 2,631 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,275), 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 Mount Tabor?
From about Oct 1 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 Oct 31 (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 Oct 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mount Tabor's scale — its 6b band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mount Tabor'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 Mount Tabor’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Mount Tabor's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 246 acres it covers and 2,631 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mount Tabor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mount Tabor's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Oct 31 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,631 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mount Tabor, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mount Tabor's boundary and the 246 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mount Tabor's own centroid, the Northeastern HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Mount Taborlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mount Tabor's 246 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Morris County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Morris 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 Morris County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mount Tabor's 246 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mount Tabor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 246 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 Mount Tabor-wide figureread your own land →