When to plant pumpkins in Bălți: 21 May – 6 July

In Bălți, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 19 March to 25 May; plant into a greenhouse from 30 April to 6 July; plant out into open ground from 21 May to 6 July.

Pumpkin in Bălți: soil, season and weather

In Bălți the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 7 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 21 May, 44 days later.

Last spring frost	7 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	21 May, 44 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	31 October, 163 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	4 August – 19 September
Days left for picking	88
Daylight	13:17 on 9 April, 15:22 on 21 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, August, has 6 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Bălți: care after planting

Planted on 21 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

11 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 Bălți during the pumpkin season

About 331 mm of rain falls in the season; August is the driest month (41 mm) and June the wettest (70 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	21	10.1	68	12	15:07
June	26.3	15.6	70	10	15:59
July	27.9	17.2	60	8	15:39
August	28.2	16.8	41	6	14:20
September	22.8	12.3	48	8	12:38
October	15.8	6.6	44	7	10:55

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant pumpkin later than Bălți; the closest date is in Chișinău, 3 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Chișinău	109 km	24 May – 23 July	3 days later
Kamianets-Podilskyi	143 km	30 May – 28 June	9 days later
Chernivtsi	159 km	2 June – 26 June	12 days later
Vinnytsia	168 km	1 June – 25 June	11 days later
Khmelnytskyi	197 km	5 June – 28 June	15 days later
Uman	202 km	2 June – 17 July	12 days later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Bălți

Buy plants ready to set out from 21 May to 6 July (from 30 April to 6 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 19 March to 25 May. Within 15 km of Bălți OpenStreetMap lists 3 markets (collected 27 October 2026).

Piața Centrală — market
Piața Vasile Alecsandri 2, Bălți · 0 km
Magazin Use Termopan — market
1 km
monumente — market
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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