Stockton University, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Stockton University, 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 Stockton University lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Stockton University — the short answer
Stockton University, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 705 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 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~226
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 705 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 Stockton University's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stockton University's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stockton University
Each reading below is measured for Stockton University itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStockton University runs about 226 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
MeasuredStockton University 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 Stockton University is in
Stockton University sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Stockton University's own centroid rather than borrowed from Atlantic County.
What Grows in Stockton University
Every plant below cleared Stockton University's own zone 7a and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stockton University?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 12 — 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 Stockton University
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Stockton University, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Stockton University
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stockton University. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GEORGE BARLOWUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- NJ BELL TELEPHONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- ATLANTICARE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ATLANTICARE REG MEDICAL CTR- MAINLAND CAMPUSBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- UNITED JOBBERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 010183-- PW 1Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- EMMELL'S SEPTIC LANDFILLSuperfund · 1.1 mi
- 011268-- Suscp15Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- POMONA OAKS RESIDENTIAL WELLSSuperfund · 1.2 mi
- STOCKTON UNIVERSITYBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NJUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- 010972-- PW 1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Stockton University'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 Stockton University.
Total Sites
803
within ~10 miles of Stockton University
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
21 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stockton University
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stockton University
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stockton University, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 21 sites within ~10 miles of Stockton University. 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.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
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Your land is one point inside Stockton University
Everything above resolves to Stockton University as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 705 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 Stockton University Average
Stockton University Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Stockton University
- ●One soil character for all of Stockton University
- ●Frost dates read at Stockton University's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stockton University's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stockton University
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Three things about your lot that Stockton University averages can't show:
We read public map data around Stockton University — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Stockton University
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 Stockton University’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 Stockton University
When does frost risk typically end in Stockton University?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stockton University 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 Stockton University?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stockton University typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stockton University?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stockton University sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 29, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stockton University?
The federal record around Stockton University runs heavier than most — 803 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (451), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Stockton University?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Stockton University's scale — its 7a band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stockton University'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 Stockton University’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Stockton University's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 705 acres it covers and 803 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stockton University's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stockton University's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 12 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 803 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stockton University, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stockton University's boundary and the 705 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Stockton University's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Stockton Universitylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Stockton University's 705 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 Stockton University's 705 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stockton University you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 705 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Stockton University-wide figureread your own land →
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