When to plant pumpkins in Amiens: 12 June – 27 July

In Amiens, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 10 April to 15 June; plant into a greenhouse from 22 May to 27 July; plant out into open ground from 12 June to 27 July.

Pumpkin in Amiens: soil, season and weather

In Amiens the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 5 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 12 June, 68 days later.

Last spring frost	5 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	12 June, 68 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	21 November, 162 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	26 August – 10 October
Days left for picking	87
Daylight	14:40 on 1 May, 16:17 on 12 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, August, has 10 rainy days

The same dates in Amiens hold for Cucumber, Bell Pepper, Eggplant, Zucchini and Watermelon.

Pumpkin in Amiens: care after planting

Planted on 12 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

3 July — feed: nitrogen

Pests and diseases of pumpkin 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 Amiens during the pumpkin season

About 416 mm of rain falls in the season; August is the driest month (59 mm) and November the wettest (85 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	21.6	12.1	66	12	16:19
July	23	13.7	63	11	15:57
August	23.1	13.9	59	10	14:31
September	20.2	11.7	62	12	12:40
October	15.9	9	81	13	10:50
November	10.4	4.8	85	14	9:05

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Amiens, Paris is 14 days earlier and Rouen 4 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Lille	98 km	11 June – 27 July	1 day earlier
Rouen	100 km	16 June – 27 July	4 days later
Paris	116 km	29 May – 26 July	14 days earlier
Mons	132 km	10 June – 25 July	2 days earlier
Reims	144 km	31 May – 23 July	12 days earlier
Bruges	160 km	15 June – 5 August	3 days later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Amiens

Buy plants ready to set out from 12 June to 27 July (from 22 May to 27 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 10 April to 15 June. Within 15 km of Amiens OpenStreetMap lists 11 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 7 markets and 6 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Côté Fleurs — garden centre
5 km
l'île aux fruits — market
2 km · ile-aux-fruits.fr
Place Gorlitz — market
3 km
Haut Jardin — farm shop
12 km · haut-jardin.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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