Carle Place, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Carle Place, 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 Carle Place lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Carle Place — the short answer
Carle Place, New York: USDA zone 7b, about 245 days between hard freezes, across 613 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~245
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 613 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 Carle Place's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Carle Place's 245-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Carle Place
Each reading below is measured for Carle Place itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCarle Place 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
MeasuredCarle Place 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 Carle Place is in
Carle Place sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Carle Place's own centroid rather than borrowed from Nassau County.
What Grows in Carle Place
Every plant below cleared Carle Place's own zone 7b and its 245-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Carle Place?
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 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 25 — 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 Carle Place
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Carle Place, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Carle Place
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Carle Place. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC - DBU3Brownfields · 200 ft
- MARSID PRESSBrownfields · 200 ft
- N 2747. 2Nitrate · 1400 ft
- N 9963. 1Nitrate · 1400 ft
- N 2748. 3Nitrate · 1500 ft
- RALLYE MOTOR INCBrownfields · 1600 ft
- QUALITY CLEANERSBrownfields · 1700 ft
- CHERRY LANE MIDDLE SCHOOLBrownfields · 1800 ft
- HESS STATION 32492Brownfields · 1800 ft
- N 3700. 1Nitrate · 1800 ft
- N 7186. 1Nitrate · 1900 ft
- CHEN BROTHERS CLEANERBrownfields · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Carle Place'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 Carle Place.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Carle Place
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Carle Place
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Carle Place, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 3,070 sites within ~10 miles of Carle Place. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Carle Place
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 Carle Place average
Your land is one point inside Carle Place
Everything above resolves to Carle Place as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 613 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 Carle Place Average
Carle Place Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Carle Place
- ●One soil character for all of Carle Place
- ●Frost dates read at Carle Place's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Carle Place's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Carle Place
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Carle Place, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Carle Place averages can't show:
We read public map data around Carle Place — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Carle Place average
How we know this about Carle Place
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 Carle Place’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 Carle Place
When does frost risk typically end in Carle Place?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Carle Place typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Carle Place?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Carle Place typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 245 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Carle Place?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Carle Place sees about 245 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Nov 11, about 210 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Carle Place?
The federal record around Carle Place runs heavier than most — 6,202 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (3,070), the nearest Brownfields 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 Carle Place?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Carle Place's scale — its 7b band and its 245-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Carle Place'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 Carle Place’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Carle Place's own scale — its own ~245-day season between 28°F freezes, the 613 acres it covers and 6,202 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Carle Place's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Carle Place's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 25 and the ~245-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 6,202 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Carle Place, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Carle Place's boundary and the 613 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 Carle Place's own centroid, the Northeastern Coastal ZoneUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Carle Placelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Carle Place's 613 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Nassau County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Nassau County
- The growing challenges every New York grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New York
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Nassau County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Carle Place's 613 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Carle Place you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 613 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Carle Place-wide figureread your own land →