When to plant eggplants in Dresden: 5 June – 29 July

In Dresden, eggplant: sow for seedlings from 16 March to 30 May; plant into a greenhouse from 15 May to 29 July; plant out into open ground from 5 June to 29 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Eberhard Hermann Saat- und Pflanzgut (garden centre, 3 km) and Kühne grün erleben (garden centre, 12 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Eggplant in Dresden: soil, season and weather

In Dresden the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 16 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the eggplant card — only around 5 June, 50 days later.

Last spring frost	16 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	5 June, 50 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	15 May – 29 July; May outside: 8.5 °C at night, 18.4 °C by day; card 21–29 °C
First autumn frost	18 November, 166 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	14 August – 7 October
Days left for picking	96
Daylight	13:14 on 6 April, 16:20 on 5 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, November, has 11 rainy days

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

Eggplant in Dresden: care after planting

Planted on 5 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

5 June — feed: balanced (NPK)
3 July — 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 Dresden during the eggplant season

No month of the season averages above the eggplant card's 21–29 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 24.9 °C. Months that stay below 21 °C even by day on average: September (20.6 °C), October (15.2 °C) and November (8.6 °C). Nights average below 21 °C in every month of the season, from 2.6 °C to 14.9 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	24.1	13.7	65	12	16:31
July	24.8	14.8	72	12	16:08
August	24.9	14.9	65	11	14:37
September	20.6	11.3	68	10	12:42
October	15.2	7.8	70	13	10:47
November	8.6	2.6	49	11	8:57

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Eggplant in nearby cities

Around Dresden, Prague is 2 days earlier and Ústí nad Labem 17 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Ústí nad Labem	48 km	22 June – 23 July	17 days later
Liberec	98 km	22 June – 12 July	17 days later
Leipzig	101 km	5 June – 28 July	same day
Prague	119 km	3 June – 19 July	2 days earlier
Plzeň	147 km	18 June – 16 July	13 days later
Potsdam	157 km	3 June – 1 August	2 days earlier

Where to buy eggplant plants and seeds near Dresden

Buy plants ready to set out from 5 June to 29 July (from 15 May to 29 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 16 March to 30 May. Within 15 km of Dresden OpenStreetMap lists 20 garden centres, 2 farm-supply shops, 12 plant nurseries, 23 markets and 34 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Kühne grün erleben — garden centre
Radeburger Landstraße 12 · Mon–Fri 08:30–18:30; Sat 08:30–18:00 · 12 km · kuehne-gruen-erleben.de
Gärtnerei Kühnel — garden centre
Wachauer Straße 9, 01454 Radeberg · Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00; Sat 09:00–12:00 · 15 km
Eberhard Hermann Saat- und Pflanzgut — garden centre
Hofmühlenstraße 20, 01187 Dresden · Mon–Fri 09:00–17:30; Sat 09:00–13:00 · 3 km
SchauGarten am Keils Gut — plant nursery
Dresdner Straße 28, 01723 Wilsdruff · 14 km · durchgeblueht.de

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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