Pleasantville, 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.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pleasantville, 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 Pleasantville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pleasantville — the short answer
Pleasantville, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 4K 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 Pleasantville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pleasantville's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pleasantville
Each reading below is measured for Pleasantville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPleasantville runs about 243 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
MeasuredPleasantville 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 Pleasantville is in
Pleasantville sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pleasantville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Atlantic County.
What Grows in Pleasantville
Every plant below cleared Pleasantville's own zone 7b and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pleasantville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — 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 Pleasantville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Pleasantville, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pleasantville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pleasantville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 7008 BLACK HORSE PKUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- T&L PROPERTY PARTNERSHIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- ATLANTIC ELECTRIC-PLEASANTVILLE SUBSTABrownfields · 1400 ft
- GIFFORD MARINE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- OLE HANSEN & SONS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- SOUTH JERSEY GAS COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- TRANSDEV VEHICLE D.B.A. FIRST VEHICLE SERVICESBrownfields · 1800 ft
- PLEASANTVILLE COAL GAS SITESuperfund · 1800 ft
- SOUTH JERSEY GAS CO PLEASANTVILLE COAL GASBrownfields · 1800 ft
- 7 ELEVEN #40124Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- OLD TURNPIKE TIRE & AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- JANASKY TIRE SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pleasantville'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 Pleasantville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pleasantville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pleasantville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pleasantville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pleasantville — Superfund (18 sites) and PFAS (11 sites). 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.
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 Pleasantville
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 Pleasantville average
Your land is one point inside Pleasantville
Everything above resolves to Pleasantville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 city 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 Pleasantville Average
Pleasantville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Pleasantville
- ●One soil character for all of Pleasantville
- ●Frost dates read at Pleasantville's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pleasantville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pleasantville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pleasantville, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pleasantville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pleasantville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pleasantville average
How we know this about Pleasantville
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Pleasantville’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Pleasantville
When does frost risk typically end in Pleasantville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pleasantville typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Pleasantville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pleasantville typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pleasantville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pleasantville sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Nov 8, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pleasantville?
The federal record around Pleasantville runs heavier than most — 1,052 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (648), 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 Pleasantville?
From about Oct 23 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pleasantville's scale — its 7b band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pleasantville'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 Pleasantville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pleasantville's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,661 acres it covers and 1,052 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pleasantville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pleasantville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 22 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,052 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pleasantville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pleasantville's boundary and the 3,661 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pleasantville's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Pleasantvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pleasantville's 3,661 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Atlantic County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Atlantic 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 Atlantic County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pleasantville's 3,661 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pleasantville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,661 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 Pleasantville-wide figureread your own land →
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