Turnersville, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Turnersville, 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 Turnersville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Turnersville — the short answer
Turnersville, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 234 days between hard freezes, across 963 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~234
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 963 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 Turnersville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Turnersville's 234-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Turnersville
Each reading below is measured for Turnersville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTurnersville runs about 234 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
MeasuredTurnersville 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 Turnersville is in
Turnersville sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Turnersville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gloucester County.
What Grows in Turnersville
Every plant below cleared Turnersville's own zone 7b and its 234-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Turnersville?
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 Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — 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 Turnersville
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Turnersville, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Turnersville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Turnersville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 150267-- PW 3Nitrate · 1800 ft
- 151647-- Nu-20 ReplNitrate · 2500 ft
- 151261-- Nu20Nitrate · 2600 ft
- 150270-- DomNitrate · 0.5 mi
- 150265-- PW 2Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- SHOPPERS LANE PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 150269-- DomNitrate · 0.7 mi
- FISHER'S SEAFOODUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- RENTAL WORLD INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SATURN OF TURNERSVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- LIMITED GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- WASHINGTON TWP GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Turnersville'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 Turnersville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Turnersville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Turnersville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Turnersville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Turnersville — Superfund (47 sites) and Nitrate (850 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Turnersville
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 Turnersville average
Your land is one point inside Turnersville
Everything above resolves to Turnersville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 963 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 Turnersville Average
Turnersville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Turnersville
- ●One soil character for all of Turnersville
- ●Frost dates read at Turnersville's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Turnersville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Turnersville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Turnersville, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Turnersville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Turnersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Turnersville average
How we know this about Turnersville
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 Turnersville’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 Turnersville
When does frost risk typically end in Turnersville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Turnersville typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Turnersville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Turnersville typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 234 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Turnersville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Turnersville sees about 234 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Nov 1, about 199 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Turnersville?
The federal record around Turnersville runs heavier than most — 2,480 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,142), the nearest Nitrate 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 Turnersville?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Turnersville's scale — its 7b band and its 234-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Turnersville'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 Turnersville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Turnersville's own scale — its own ~234-day season between 28°F freezes, the 963 acres it covers and 2,480 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Turnersville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Turnersville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 15 and the ~234-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,480 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Turnersville, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Turnersville's boundary and the 963 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~234-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Turnersville's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Turnersvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Turnersville's 963 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gloucester County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gloucester 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 Gloucester County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Turnersville's 963 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Turnersville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 963 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Turnersville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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