Newfield, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Newfield, 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 Newfield lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Newfield — the short answer
Newfield, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 1K 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 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~222
- 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 Newfield's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Newfield's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Newfield
Each reading below is measured for Newfield itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNewfield runs about 222 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
MeasuredNewfield 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 Newfield is in
Newfield sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Newfield's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gloucester County.
What Grows in Newfield
Every plant below cleared Newfield's own zone 7a and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Newfield?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. 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 7 — 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 Newfield
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Newfield, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Newfield
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Newfield. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 151071-- PW 5CNitrate · 1700 ft
- 150809-- PW 5Nitrate · 1800 ft
- GENERAL SPRING SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- MOBILE DREDGING & VIDEO PIPE INCBrownfields · 2600 ft
- 150209-- PW 3Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- APOLLO DINERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Shieldalloy/ Newfield, N.J.Mining · 0.6 mi
- 151436-- DomNitrate · 0.6 mi
- BF PLUMBING INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 150424-- PW 2Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- COASTAL 0913 2804Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- MAIN ROAD SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Newfield'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 Newfield.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Newfield
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Newfield
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Newfield, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Newfield — Superfund (42 sites) and Nitrate (402 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.
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 Newfield
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 Newfield average
Your land is one point inside Newfield
Everything above resolves to Newfield 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 Newfield Average
Newfield Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Newfield
- ●One soil character for all of Newfield
- ●Frost dates read at Newfield's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Newfield's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Newfield
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Newfield, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Newfield averages can't show:
We read public map data around Newfield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Newfield average
How we know this about Newfield
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 Newfield’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 Newfield
When does frost risk typically end in Newfield?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Newfield 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 Newfield?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Newfield typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Newfield?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Newfield sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 24, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Newfield?
The federal record around Newfield runs heavier than most — 1,180 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (570), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Newfield?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Newfield's scale — its 7a band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Newfield'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 Newfield’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Newfield's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,112 acres it covers and 1,180 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Newfield's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Newfield's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 7 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,180 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Newfield, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Newfield's boundary and the 1,112 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Newfield's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Newfieldlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Newfield's 1,112 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gloucester County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gloucester 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 Gloucester County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Newfield's 1,112 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Newfield you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,112 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Newfield-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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