Oceanport, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Oceanport, 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 Oceanport lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Oceanport — the short answer
Oceanport, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 247 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~247
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 7b is Oceanport's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Oceanport's 247-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Oceanport
Each reading below is measured for Oceanport itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredOceanport runs about 247 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
MeasuredOceanport sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Oceanport is in
Oceanport sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Oceanport's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monmouth County.
What Grows in Oceanport
Every plant below cleared Oceanport's own zone 7b and its 247-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Oceanport?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 25 — 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 Oceanport
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Oceanport, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Oceanport
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Oceanport. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OCEANPORT BOROUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- MONMOUTH PARK (NJS&E AUTHORITY)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SHELL SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- P E P INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- CONCURRENT COMPUTER CORPToxics Release Inventory · 0.9 mi
- WHEELOCK INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SHORE REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- FIRESTONE STORE 0142Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SCHNEIDER & NELSON INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- OCEANPORT LANDING INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- GM FORD DIAGNOTICUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- WOODBINE CEMETERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Oceanport'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 Oceanport.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Oceanport
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Oceanport
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Oceanport, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Oceanport — Underground Storage Tanks (869 sites) and Superfund (15 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Oceanport
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 Oceanport average
Your land is one point inside Oceanport
Everything above resolves to Oceanport as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Oceanport Average
Oceanport Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Oceanport
- ●One soil character for all of Oceanport
- ●Frost dates read at Oceanport's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Oceanport's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Oceanport
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Oceanport, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Oceanport averages can't show:
We read public map data around Oceanport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Oceanport average
How we know this about Oceanport
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 Oceanport’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 Oceanport
When does frost risk typically end in Oceanport?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Oceanport typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Oceanport?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Oceanport typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 247 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Oceanport?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Oceanport sees about 247 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Nov 11, about 212 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Oceanport?
The federal record around Oceanport is a meaningful one — 1,215 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (869), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Oceanport?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Oceanport's scale — its 7b band and its 247-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Oceanport'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 Oceanport’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Oceanport's own scale — its own ~247-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,030 acres it covers and 1,215 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Oceanport's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Oceanport's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 25 and the ~247-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,215 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Oceanport, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Oceanport's boundary and the 2,030 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~247-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Oceanport's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Oceanportlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Oceanport's 2,030 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monmouth County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monmouth 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 Monmouth County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Oceanport's 2,030 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Oceanport you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,030 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Oceanport-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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