When to plant peas in Penza: 9 April – 2 August

In Penza, peas: sow straight into the bed from 9 April to 2 August. For seeds, the places nearby include Дачник (garden centre, 3 km) and Наша дача (garden centre, 4 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Peas in Penza: soil, season and weather

Peas tolerates light frost and could go in three weeks before the last frost (30 April), but the top 7 cm of soil reaches its minimum of 4 °C only around 10 April, 1 day after that.

Last spring frost	30 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 4 °C	10 April, 20 days before the last frost
First autumn frost	15 October, 189 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	74
First harvest, if planted in this window	22 June – 15 October
Days left for picking	115
Daylight	13:32 on 9 April
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, August, has 7 rainy days

Peas in Penza: care after planting

Planted on 9 April: in the first weeks water every 6 days.

Pests and diseases of peas to watch for:

Weather in Penza during the peas season

About 394 mm of rain falls in the season; August is the driest month (43 mm) and July the wettest (75 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
April	13.3	2	57	10	13:57
May	19.2	7.4	59	11	15:50
June	23.4	12.2	63	11	16:56
July	25.9	14.9	75	11	16:30
August	25.3	13.8	43	7	14:50
September	18	8.2	46	8	12:45
October	10.5	3.2	51	11	10:40

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Peas in nearby cities

1 of the nearest cities share Penza's date.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Saransk	109 km	9 April – 1 August	same day
Saratov	198 km	24 March – 13 August	16 days earlier
Tambov	244 km	8 April – 6 August	1 day earlier
Ulyanovsk	255 km	26 March – 10 August	14 days earlier
Tolyatti	290 km	27 March – 10 August	13 days earlier
Samara	342 km	30 March – 8 August	10 days earlier

Where to buy peas seeds in Penza

Seeds go straight into the bed from 9 April to 2 August; buy them before that. Within 15 km of Penza OpenStreetMap lists 11 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 1 plant nursery, 7 markets and 4 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Дачник — garden centre
Mon–Sun 09:00–18:00 · 3 km
Наша дача — garden centre
Mon–Fri 09:00–19:00; Sat, Sun 09:00–18:00 · 4 km
"Русский базар" — market
улица Аустрина 137В, 440015 · Mon–Sat 08:00–16:00 · 5 km
Центральный рынок — market
улица Бакунина 20, Пенза · 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.

When to plant peas in Penza: 9 April – 2 August

Peas in Penza: soil, season and weather

Peas in Penza: care after planting

Weather in Penza during the peas season

Peas in nearby cities

Where to buy peas seeds in Penza

Questions

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