Wallington, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Wallington, 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 Wallington lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Wallington — the short answer
Wallington, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 242 days between hard freezes, across 636 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~242
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 636 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 Wallington's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wallington's 242-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wallington
Each reading below is measured for Wallington itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWallington runs about 242 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
MeasuredWallington 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 Wallington is in
Wallington sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Wallington's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bergen County.
What Grows in Wallington
Every plant below cleared Wallington's own zone 7b and its 242-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wallington?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — 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 Wallington
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Wallington, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Wallington
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wallington. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WALLINGTON WATER DEPTPFAS · 0 ft
- STANLEY FOAM CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- MARKS AUTO EXXON 89607Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- JIM JOHN KEN PROPERTIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- 030288-- Wallington 3 ObsNitrate · 1200 ft
- INTSTATE DYEING & FINISHINGToxics Release Inventory · 1400 ft
- SUNBRITE DYE COToxics Release Inventory · 1400 ft
- NOAH REALITY CORPToxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
- ACCUTEC INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- CARLTON SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- 310007-- Ind 1Nitrate · 1700 ft
- IDEAL FUEL OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wallington'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 Wallington.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wallington
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wallington
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wallington, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Wallington — Superfund (192 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (6,903 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.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Wallington
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 Wallington average
Your land is one point inside Wallington
Everything above resolves to Wallington as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 636 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 Wallington Average
Wallington Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Wallington
- ●One soil character for all of Wallington
- ●Frost dates read at Wallington's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wallington's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wallington
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wallington, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wallington averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wallington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wallington average
How we know this about Wallington
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 Wallington’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 Wallington
When does frost risk typically end in Wallington?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wallington typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Wallington?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wallington typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 242 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wallington?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wallington sees about 242 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Nov 7, about 207 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wallington?
The federal record around Wallington runs heavier than most — 11,141 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (6,903), the nearest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile 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 Wallington?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wallington's scale — its 7b band and its 242-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wallington'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 Wallington’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Wallington's own scale — its own ~242-day season between 28°F freezes, the 636 acres it covers and 11,141 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wallington's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wallington's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 21 and the ~242-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 11,141 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wallington, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wallington's boundary and the 636 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~242-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wallington's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Wallingtonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wallington's 636 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 Wallington's 636 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wallington you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 636 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile 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 Wallington-wide figureread your own land →