When to plant eggplants in Orenburg: 27 May – 21 June

In Orenburg, eggplant: sow for seedlings from 7 March to 22 April; plant into a greenhouse from 6 May to 21 June; plant out into open ground from 27 May to 21 June. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Рябушка (farm shop, 1 km) and Наш Золотой цыпленок (farm shop, 1 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Eggplant in Orenburg: soil, season and weather

In Orenburg the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 25 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the eggplant card — only around 27 May, 32 days later.

Last spring frost	25 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	27 May, 32 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	6 May – 21 June; May outside: 8.8 °C at night, 22 °C by day; card 21–29 °C
First autumn frost	11 October, 137 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	5 August – 30 August
Days left for picking	67
Daylight	12:40 on 28 March, 16:10 on 27 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, August, has 5 rainy days

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

Eggplant in Orenburg: 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 Orenburg during the eggplant season

Days average above the eggplant card's 21–29 °C in July (29.4 °C). Months that stay below 21 °C even by day on average: September (19.9 °C) and October (11.5 °C). Nights average below 21 °C in every month of the season, from 2.4 °C to 16.7 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	22	8.8	40	7	15:37
June	26.4	13.9	38	7	16:39
July	29.4	16.7	38	6	16:15
August	28.3	15.3	27	5	14:41
September	19.9	8.5	31	6	12:43
October	11.5	2.4	43	8	10:45

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Eggplant in nearby cities

Around Orenburg, Oral (Uralsk) is 1 day earlier and Sterlitamak 6 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Sterlitamak	216 km	2 June – 16 June	6 days later
Aktobe	220 km	28 May – 19 June	1 day later
Oral (Uralsk)	260 km	26 May – 23 June	1 day earlier
Magnitogorsk	320 km	2 June – 6 June	6 days later
Ufa	335 km	31 May – 11 June	4 days later
Samara	371 km	31 May – 1 July	4 days later

Where to buy eggplant plants and seeds near Orenburg

Buy plants ready to set out from 27 May to 21 June (from 6 May to 21 June for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 7 March to 22 April. Within 15 km of Orenburg OpenStreetMap lists 11 farm-supply shops, 11 markets and 37 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

продуктовый рынок Фрутлайн — market
проспект Победы 114Е · 3 km
Восторг — farm shop
Салмышская улица 33/1, Оренбург · 8 km
Рябушка — farm shop
Телевизионный переулок 1, Оренбург · 1 km
Наш Золотой цыпленок — farm shop
Туркестанская улица 2А, Оренбург · 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.

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