When to plant eggplants in Salzburg: 9 June – 11 July

In Salzburg, eggplant: sow for seedlings from 20 March to 12 May; plant into a greenhouse from 19 May to 11 July; plant out into open ground from 9 June to 11 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Bauhaus - Gartencenter (garden centre, 4 km) and Raiffeisen Lagerhaus Grödig (farm supply, 5 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Eggplant in Salzburg: soil, season and weather

In Salzburg the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 22 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the eggplant card — only around 9 June, 48 days later.

Last spring frost	22 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	9 June, 48 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	19 May – 11 July; May outside: 7.9 °C at night, 18.3 °C by day; card 21–29 °C
First autumn frost	31 October, 144 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	18 August – 19 September
Days left for picking	74
Daylight	13:20 on 10 April, 15:55 on 9 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, October, has 13 rainy days

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

Eggplant in Salzburg: care after planting

Planted on 9 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

9 June — feed: balanced (NPK)
7 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 Salzburg during the eggplant season

No month of the season averages above the eggplant card's 21–29 °C by day; the warmest, July, averages 24.4 °C. Months that stay below 21 °C even by day on average: September (20.1 °C) and October (16.3 °C). Nights average below 21 °C in every month of the season, from 6.4 °C to 14.5 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	23.8	13.3	139	16	15:59
July	24.4	14.4	170	18	15:39
August	24.3	14.5	193	17	14:20
September	20.1	10.4	142	14	12:38
October	16.3	6.4	112	13	10:55

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Eggplant in nearby cities

Around Salzburg, Linz is 5 days earlier and Klagenfurt 24 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Linz	109 km	4 June – 23 July	5 days earlier
Munich	115 km	8 June – 20 July	1 day earlier
Innsbruck	136 km	29 June – 29 July	20 days later
Regensburg	151 km	14 June – 18 July	5 days later
Klagenfurt	163 km	3 July – 16 July	24 days later
České Budějovice	168 km	18 June – 17 July	9 days later

Where to buy eggplant plants and seeds near Salzburg

Buy plants ready to set out from 9 June to 11 July (from 19 May to 11 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 20 March to 12 May. Within 15 km of Salzburg OpenStreetMap lists 20 garden centres, 2 farm-supply shops, 4 plant nurseries, 7 markets and 15 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Lagerhaus Seekirchen am Wallersee — garden centre
Wallerseestraße 57, 5201 Seekirchen am Wallersee · 13 km
Bauhaus - Gartencenter — garden centre
Mon–Fri 07:30–19:30, Sat 07:30–18:00 · 4 km
Raiffeisen Lagerhaus Grödig — farm supply
Pflegerstraße 26, 5082 Grödig · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00; Sat 08:00–16:00 · 5 km
Bio-Markt Borromäuspoint — market
Gaisbergstraße 20, 5020 Salzburg · Fri 14:00–18:00 · 2 km · biologisch-aus-salzburg.at

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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