When to plant pumpkins in Arezzo: 9 June – 27 July

In Arezzo, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 7 April to 15 June; plant into a greenhouse from 19 May to 27 July; plant out into open ground from 9 June to 27 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Azienda Agricola Tonioni (farm shop, 9 km) and La Posta Reale (farm shop, 14 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Arezzo: soil, season and weather

In Arezzo the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 6 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 9 June, 64 days later.

Last spring frost	6 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	9 June, 64 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	21 November, 165 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	23 August – 10 October
Days left for picking	90
Daylight	14:00 on 28 April, 15:20 on 9 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, July, has 5 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Arezzo: care after planting

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

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

30 June — 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 Arezzo during the pumpkin season

About 452 mm of rain falls in the season; July is the driest month (38 mm) and November the wettest (117 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	25.5	13.6	53	8	15:24
July	28.9	16.3	38	5	15:07
August	28.6	16.1	59	7	14:00
September	22.9	12.2	89	9	12:33
October	18.1	8.4	96	10	11:05
November	12	4.1	117	13	9:43

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant pumpkin earlier than Arezzo; the closest date is in Perugia, 11 days earlier.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Siena	47 km	26 May – 2 August	14 days earlier
Perugia	57 km	29 May – 31 July	11 days earlier
Florence	61 km	28 May – 2 August	12 days earlier
San Marino	70 km	16 May – 17 August	24 days earlier
Rimini	87 km	16 May – 17 August	24 days earlier
Ravenna	109 km	15 May – 17 August	25 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Arezzo

Buy plants ready to set out from 9 June to 27 July (from 19 May to 27 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 7 April to 15 June. Within 15 km of Arezzo OpenStreetMap lists 2 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop and 3 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Azienda Agricola Tonioni — farm shop
Strada di Foiano 57, 54045 Civitella in Val di Chiana · Mon–Sat 08:00–19:00 · 9 km
La Posta Reale — farm shop
Strada Provinciale 1 Sette Ponti Levante 122 · 14 km · fattoriabellosguardo.com
Show garden — garden centre
3 km
Fattoria di Rimaggio — farm shop
14 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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