Pemberton, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pemberton, 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 Pemberton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pemberton — the short answer
Pemberton, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 378 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 378 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 Pemberton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pemberton's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pemberton
Each reading below is measured for Pemberton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPemberton runs about 224 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
MeasuredPemberton 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 Pemberton is in
Pemberton sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pemberton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Burlington County.
What Grows in Pemberton
Every plant below cleared Pemberton's own zone 7b and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pemberton?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — 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 Pemberton
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Pemberton, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pemberton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pemberton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BUDD TRACT FORMERUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- CRAIGS MOBILUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- R&R STORE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- MAGDA INDUSTRIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- JATEC EQUIPMENT CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- PEMBERTON SUNOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- 38 WEST HAMPTON STREETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- SATURDAY PETROLEUM CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- PEMBERTON BOROUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- 050352-- PW 3Nitrate · 1900 ft
- WAWA FOOD MARKET #982Brownfields · 2600 ft
- STAN DANLEY AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pemberton'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 Pemberton.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pemberton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pemberton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pemberton, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pemberton — Superfund (10 sites) and PFAS (6 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Pemberton
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 Pemberton average
Your land is one point inside Pemberton
Everything above resolves to Pemberton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 378 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 Pemberton Average
Pemberton Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Pemberton
- ●One soil character for all of Pemberton
- ●Frost dates read at Pemberton's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pemberton's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pemberton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pemberton, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pemberton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pemberton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pemberton average
How we know this about Pemberton
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 Pemberton’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 Pemberton
When does frost risk typically end in Pemberton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pemberton typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Pemberton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pemberton typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pemberton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pemberton sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 27, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pemberton?
The federal record around Pemberton runs heavier than most — 702 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (394), 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 Pemberton?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pemberton's scale — its 7b band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pemberton'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 Pemberton’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pemberton's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 378 acres it covers and 702 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pemberton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pemberton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 10 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 702 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pemberton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pemberton's boundary and the 378 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~224-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pemberton's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Pembertonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pemberton's 378 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Burlington County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Burlington 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 Burlington County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pemberton's 378 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pemberton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 378 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 Pemberton-wide figureread your own land →
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