Vineland, 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.
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 Vineland, 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 Vineland lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Vineland — the short answer
Vineland, New Jersey: USDA zone 7a, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 44K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 44K 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 Vineland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Vineland's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Vineland
Each reading below is measured for Vineland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVineland runs about 217 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
MeasuredVineland 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 Vineland is in
Vineland sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Vineland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cumberland County.
What Grows in Vineland
Every plant below cleared Vineland's own zone 7a and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Vineland?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Vineland
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Vineland, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Vineland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Vineland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 110221-- PW 8Nitrate · 650 ft
- VINELAND ROAD DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 110708-- PW 13Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- TEXACO SERVICE STATION #100292Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- KIDSTON SERVICE STATION (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SICO 821Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SUNOCO 08560682Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #5855Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- SACRED HEART CEMETERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- DEMATTE OIL SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- BC MATERIALS & EQUIP CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CLG COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Vineland'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 Vineland.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Vineland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Vineland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Vineland, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Vineland — Superfund (33 sites) and Nitrate (266 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.
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 Vineland
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 Vineland average
Your land is one point inside Vineland
Everything above resolves to Vineland as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 44K 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 Vineland Average
Vineland Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Vineland
- ●One soil character for all of Vineland
- ●Frost dates read at Vineland's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Vineland's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Vineland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Vineland, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Vineland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Vineland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Vineland average
How we know this about Vineland
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 Vineland’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 Vineland
When does frost risk typically end in Vineland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Vineland typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Vineland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Vineland typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Vineland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Vineland sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 22, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Vineland?
The federal record around Vineland runs heavier than most — 959 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (519), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.1 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 Vineland?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Vineland's scale — its 7a band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Vineland'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 Vineland’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Vineland's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 43,778 acres it covers and 959 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Vineland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Vineland's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 5 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 959 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Vineland, the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Vineland's boundary and the 43,778 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Vineland's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Vinelandlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Vineland's 43,778 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cumberland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cumberland 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 Cumberland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Vineland's 43,778 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Vineland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 43,778 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 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 Vineland-wide figureread your own land →