Presidential Lakes Estates, 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.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Presidential Lakes Estates, 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 Presidential Lakes Estates lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Presidential Lakes Estates — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Presidential Lakes Estates — the short answer
Presidential Lakes Estates, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 715 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- 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 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 715 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 Presidential Lakes Estates's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Presidential Lakes Estates's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Presidential Lakes Estates
Each reading below is measured for Presidential Lakes Estates itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPresidential Lakes Estates runs about 221 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
MeasuredPresidential Lakes Estates 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 Presidential Lakes Estates is in
Presidential Lakes Estates sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Presidential Lakes Estates's own centroid rather than borrowed from Burlington County.
What Grows in Presidential Lakes Estates
Every plant below cleared Presidential Lakes Estates's own zone 7a and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Presidential Lakes Estates?
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 7 — 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 Presidential Lakes Estates
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Presidential Lakes Estates, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Presidential Lakes Estates
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Presidential Lakes Estates. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LEBANON STATE FORESTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- PEMBERTON TWP DEPT MAINPFAS · 1.5 mi
- 051999-- MW15RNitrate · 1.7 mi
- 051502-- Lebanon St F MW15Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- BRENNAN FUEL LLC DBA GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- 051092-- Institutional 2Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- PRATLEY'S AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- PEMBERTON STATION LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- M AND T CITGOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- 050709-- NJ WoodlandNitrate · 2.8 mi
- LAKE PEMBERTON PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- 051479-- Lebanon Sf MW16Nitrate · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Presidential Lakes Estates'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 Presidential Lakes Estates.
Total Sites
414
within ~10 miles of Presidential Lakes Estates
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
11 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Presidential Lakes Estates
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Presidential Lakes Estates
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Presidential Lakes Estates, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Presidential Lakes Estates — Superfund (11 sites) and Nitrate (218 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 Presidential Lakes Estates
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 Presidential Lakes Estates average
Your land is one point inside Presidential Lakes Estates
Everything above resolves to Presidential Lakes Estates as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 715 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 Presidential Lakes Estates Average
Presidential Lakes Estates Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Presidential Lakes Estates
- ●One soil character for all of Presidential Lakes Estates
- ●Frost dates read at Presidential Lakes Estates's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Presidential Lakes Estates's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Presidential Lakes Estates
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Presidential Lakes Estates, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Presidential Lakes Estates averages can't show:
We read public map data around Presidential Lakes Estates — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Presidential Lakes Estates average
How we know this about Presidential Lakes Estates
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 Presidential Lakes Estates’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 Presidential Lakes Estates
When does frost risk typically end in Presidential Lakes Estates?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Presidential Lakes Estates 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 Presidential Lakes Estates?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Presidential Lakes Estates 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 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Presidential Lakes Estates?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Presidential Lakes Estates sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 24, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Presidential Lakes Estates?
The federal record around Presidential Lakes Estates runs heavier than most — 414 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (218), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Presidential Lakes Estates?
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 Presidential Lakes Estates's scale — its 7a band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Presidential Lakes Estates'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 Presidential Lakes Estates’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Presidential Lakes Estates's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 715 acres it covers and 414 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Presidential Lakes Estates's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Presidential Lakes Estates's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 7 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 414 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Presidential Lakes Estates, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Presidential Lakes Estates's boundary and the 715 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Presidential Lakes Estates's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Presidential Lakes Estateslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Presidential Lakes Estates's 715 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 Presidential Lakes Estates's 715 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Presidential Lakes Estates you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 715 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 Presidential Lakes Estates-wide figureread your own land →