When to plant bell peppers in Kremenchuk: 28 May – 18 July

In Kremenchuk, bell pepper: sow for seedlings from 8 March to 19 May; plant into a greenhouse from 7 May to 18 July; plant out into open ground from 28 May to 18 July.

Bell Pepper in Kremenchuk: soil, season and weather

In Kremenchuk the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 6 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the bell pepper card — only around 28 May, 52 days later.

Last spring frost	6 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	28 May, 52 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	7 May – 18 July; May outside: 10.7 °C at night, 20.9 °C by day; card 15–30 °C
First autumn frost	7 November, 163 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	6 August – 26 September
Days left for picking	93
Daylight	12:40 on 29 March, 15:47 on 28 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 4 days; the driest month, August, has 6 rainy days

The same dates in Kremenchuk hold for Cucumber, Eggplant, Zucchini, Pumpkin and Watermelon.

Bell Pepper in Kremenchuk: care after planting

Planted on 28 May: in the first weeks water every 5 days.

Feeding, by the card’s schedule from that day:

28 May — feed: balanced (NPK)
25 June — feed: nitrogen

Pests and diseases of bell pepper to watch for:

Dates count from the first planting day of the window above; a later planting moves them by as many days.

Weather in Kremenchuk during the bell pepper season

No month of the season averages above the bell pepper card's 15–30 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 28.2 °C. Months that stay below 15 °C even by day on average: October (14.8 °C) and November (7 °C). Nights average below 15 °C in May and September–November (1.6–12.5 °C).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	20.9	10.7	65	12	15:17
June	26.2	16.3	55	10	16:11
July	27.8	17.8	57	8	15:49
August	28.2	17.5	37	6	14:26
September	22.2	12.5	42	7	12:39
October	14.8	6.9	54	9	10:52
November	7	1.6	53	9	9:11

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Bell Pepper in nearby cities

2 of the nearest cities share Kremenchuk's date.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Oleksandriia	48 km	27 May – 18 July	1 day earlier
Poltava	102 km	28 May – 3 July	same day
Kropyvnytskyi	104 km	26 May – 18 July	2 days earlier
Cherkasy	106 km	26 May – 22 July	2 days earlier
Kamianske	108 km	28 May – 19 July	same day
Kryvyi Rih	128 km	25 May – 18 July	3 days earlier

Where to buy bell pepper plants and seeds near Kremenchuk

Buy plants ready to set out from 28 May to 18 July (from 7 May to 18 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 8 March to 19 May. Within 15 km of Kremenchuk OpenStreetMap lists 12 markets and 4 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Each window starts on the Greenly calendar date and ends on the last day that still leaves the crop’s days to harvest (from its card) before the average first autumn frost, plus six weeks of picking for crops harvested over weeks (tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers, courgettes, pumpkins, watermelons, beans) — our rule; earlier in the window is safer.

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