New Egypt, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in New Egypt, 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 New Egypt lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Egypt — the short answer
New Egypt, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- 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
- ~226
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 New Egypt's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Egypt's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Egypt
Each reading below is measured for New Egypt itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Egypt runs about 226 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
MeasuredNew Egypt 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 New Egypt is in
New Egypt sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Egypt's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ocean County.
What Grows in New Egypt
Every plant below cleared New Egypt's own zone 7a and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Egypt?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (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. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around New Egypt
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from New Egypt, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Egypt
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Egypt. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 1 NORTH MAIN CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- ENTROPY RACING SERVICESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- MEENAN OIL DEPOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- EXXON R/S 36025Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- 290519-- PW 1Nitrate · 1800 ft
- NJ BELL TELEPHONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- PLUMSTED TWP BD OF EDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- NORMAN BRIGHT INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #2301Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- TEXACO SERVICE STATION FORMERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- COOKSTOWN OFFICEBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- 290517-- Well 2Nitrate · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Egypt'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 New Egypt.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Egypt
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Egypt
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Egypt, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Egypt — Superfund (15 sites) and Nitrate (254 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in New Egypt
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 New Egypt average
Your land is one point inside New Egypt
Everything above resolves to New Egypt as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 New Egypt Average
New Egypt Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across New Egypt
- ●One soil character for all of New Egypt
- ●Frost dates read at New Egypt's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Egypt's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Egypt
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Egypt, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Egypt averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Egypt — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Egypt average
How we know this about New Egypt
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 New Egypt’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 New Egypt
When does frost risk typically end in New Egypt?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Egypt typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in New Egypt?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Egypt 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 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Egypt?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Egypt sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 28, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Egypt?
The federal record around New Egypt runs heavier than most — 537 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (254), 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 New Egypt?
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 New Egypt's scale — its 7a band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Egypt'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 New Egypt’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Egypt's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,541 acres it covers and 537 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Egypt's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Egypt's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 11 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 537 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Egypt, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Egypt's boundary and the 2,541 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Egypt's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of New Egyptlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Egypt's 2,541 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ocean County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ocean 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 Ocean County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Egypt's 2,541 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Egypt you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,541 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 New Egypt-wide figureread your own land →
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