When to plant eggplants in Cahul: 27 May – 28 July

In Cahul, eggplant: sow for seedlings from 7 March to 29 May; plant into a greenhouse from 6 May to 28 July; plant out into open ground from 27 May to 28 July.

Eggplant in Cahul: soil, season and weather

In Cahul the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 4 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the eggplant card — only around 27 May, 53 days later.

Last spring frost	4 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	27 May, 53 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	6 May – 28 July; May outside: 10.7 °C at night, 21.3 °C by day; card 21–29 °C
First autumn frost	17 November, 174 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	5 August – 6 October
Days left for picking	104
Daylight	12:33 on 28 March, 15:21 on 27 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, August, has 5 rainy days

The same dates in Cahul hold for Cucumber, Bell Pepper, Zucchini, Pumpkin and Watermelon.

Eggplant in Cahul: care after planting

Planted on 27 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

27 May — feed: balanced (NPK)
24 June — feed: nitrogen

Pests and diseases of eggplant 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 Cahul during the eggplant season

Days average above the eggplant card's 21–29 °C in August (29.1 °C). Months that stay below 21 °C even by day on average: October (16.9 °C) and November (10 °C). Nights average below 21 °C in every month of the season, from 3 °C to 18.1 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	21.3	10.7	61	10	14:55
June	26.7	16.3	75	10	15:43
July	28.8	18.1	49	6	15:24
August	29.1	18	28	5	14:11
September	23.8	13.4	45	5	12:36
October	16.9	7.8	47	6	11:00
November	10	3	45	7	9:30

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Eggplant in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant eggplant earlier than Cahul; the closest date is in Chișinău, 3 days earlier.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Izmail	79 km	20 May – 4 August	7 days earlier
Chișinău	134 km	24 May – 28 July	3 days earlier
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi	170 km	17 May – 6 August	10 days earlier
Odesa	205 km	23 May – 5 August	4 days earlier
Bălți	208 km	21 May – 11 July	6 days earlier
Bucharest	231 km	23 May – 30 July	4 days earlier

Where to buy eggplant plants and seeds near Cahul

Buy plants ready to set out from 27 May to 28 July (from 6 May to 28 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 7 March to 29 May. Within 15 km of Cahul OpenStreetMap lists 1 market (collected 27 October 2026).

Piața Centrală — market
1 km

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.

Questions