When to plant eggplants in Nuremberg: 3 June – 14 July

In Nuremberg, eggplant: sow for seedlings from 14 March to 15 May; plant into a greenhouse from 13 May to 14 July; plant out into open ground from 3 June to 14 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Gartencenter Radloff (garden centre, 6 km) and Gartenwelt Dauchenbeck (garden centre, 8 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Eggplant in Nuremberg: soil, season and weather

In Nuremberg the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 29 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the eggplant card — only around 3 June, 35 days later.

Last spring frost	29 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	3 June, 35 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	13 May – 14 July; May outside: 8.1 °C at night, 19 °C by day; card 21–29 °C
First autumn frost	3 November, 153 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	12 August – 22 September
Days left for picking	83
Daylight	13:03 on 4 April, 16:02 on 3 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, November, has 11 rainy days

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

Eggplant in Nuremberg: care after planting

Planted on 3 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

3 June — feed: balanced (NPK)
1 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 Nuremberg during the eggplant season

No month of the season averages above the eggplant card's 21–29 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 25.2 °C. Months that stay below 21 °C even by day on average: September (20.6 °C), October (15.2 °C) and November (8.2 °C). Nights average below 21 °C in every month of the season, from 1.6 °C to 14 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	24.4	13	66	11	16:15
July	25.1	13.9	80	13	15:53
August	25.2	14	81	11	14:28
September	20.6	10.2	62	10	12:40
October	15.2	6.5	65	12	10:51
November	8.2	1.6	57	11	9:08

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Eggplant in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant eggplant later than Nuremberg; the closest date is in Stuttgart, 2 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Regensburg	89 km	14 June – 18 July	11 days later
Augsburg	121 km	13 June – 20 July	10 days later
Munich	150 km	8 June – 20 July	5 days later
Stuttgart	157 km	5 June – 19 July	2 days later
Plzeň	169 km	18 June – 16 July	15 days later
Erfurt	170 km	9 June – 18 July	6 days later

Where to buy eggplant plants and seeds near Nuremberg

Buy plants ready to set out from 3 June to 14 July (from 13 May to 14 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 14 March to 15 May. Within 15 km of Nuremberg OpenStreetMap lists 28 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 2 plant nurseries, 15 markets and 52 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Gartencenter Radloff — garden centre
Höfleser Hauptstraße 5, 90427 · 6 km · blumen-radloff.de
Gartenwelt Dauchenbeck — garden centre
Am Jakobsweg 15 · Mon–Sat 09:00–18:00 · 8 km
Grünes Zentrum Krottenbach — garden centre
Höllwiesenstraße 59, 90453 Nürnberg · 9 km · gartenbau-schopf.de
Mathwig Baumschulen — plant nursery
Mon, Thu, Fri 09:00–17:00; Sat 09:00–13:00; public holidays closed · 12 km · pflanzenparadies.com

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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