Teterboro, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Teterboro, 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 Teterboro 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 Teterboro — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Teterboro — the short answer
Teterboro, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 245 days between hard freezes, across 708 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 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~245
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 708 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 Teterboro's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Teterboro's 245-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Teterboro
Each reading below is measured for Teterboro itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTeterboro runs about 245 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
MeasuredTeterboro 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 Teterboro is in
Teterboro sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Teterboro's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bergen County.
What Grows in Teterboro
Every plant below cleared Teterboro's own zone 7b and its 245-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Teterboro?
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 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Teterboro
Spotted lanternfly documented 4 miles from Teterboro, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Teterboro
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Teterboro. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TEXACO INC AVIATION DIVISIONBrownfields · 1400 ft
- ATLANTIC AVIATION CORP @ TETERBORO AIRPORTBrownfields · 1400 ft
- ATLANTIC AVIATION CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- FALCON JET CORP, JET CENTERToxics Release Inventory · 1800 ft
- FIRST AVIATION SERVICES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORTBrownfields · 2000 ft
- SENTIENT COBrownfields · 2000 ft
- SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT CORP @ TETERBORO AIRPORTBrownfields · 2100 ft
- DASSAULT FALCON JET-TEBBrownfields · 2100 ft
- SANYO FISHER (USA) CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- QUEST DIAGNOSTICSBrownfields · 2100 ft
- TETERBORO TEB SSALR FAAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Teterboro'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 Teterboro.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Teterboro
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Teterboro
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Teterboro, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 166 sites within ~10 miles of Teterboro. 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).
Check your specific parcel in Teterboro
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 Teterboro average
Your land is one point inside Teterboro
Everything above resolves to Teterboro as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 708 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 Teterboro Average
Teterboro Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Teterboro
- ●One soil character for all of Teterboro
- ●Frost dates read at Teterboro's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Teterboro's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Teterboro
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Teterboro, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Teterboro averages can't show:
We read public map data around Teterboro — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Teterboro average
How we know this about Teterboro
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 Teterboro’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 Teterboro
When does frost risk typically end in Teterboro?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Teterboro 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 Teterboro?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Teterboro typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 245 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Teterboro?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Teterboro sees about 245 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Nov 9, about 210 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Teterboro?
The federal record around Teterboro runs heavier than most — 13,201 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (7,929), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Teterboro?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Teterboro's scale — its 7b band and its 245-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Teterboro'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 Teterboro’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Teterboro's own scale — its own ~245-day season between 28°F freezes, the 708 acres it covers and 13,201 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Teterboro's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Teterboro's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 23 and the ~245-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 13,201 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Teterboro, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Teterboro's boundary and the 708 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~245-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Teterboro's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Teterborolydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Teterboro's 708 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bergen County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bergen 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 Bergen County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Teterboro's 708 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Teterboro you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 708 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Teterboro-wide figureread your own land →