When to plant pumpkins in Bochum: 3 June – 26 July

In Bochum, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 1 April to 14 June; plant into a greenhouse from 13 May to 26 July; plant out into open ground from 3 June to 26 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Horn 21 (farm supply, 11 km) and Mühle Eppert (farm supply, 14 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Bochum: soil, season and weather

In Bochum the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 10 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 3 June, 54 days later.

Last spring frost	10 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	3 June, 54 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	20 November, 170 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	17 August – 9 October
Days left for picking	95
Daylight	14:16 on 22 April, 16:21 on 3 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, August, has 13 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Bochum: care after planting

Planted on 3 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

24 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 Bochum during the pumpkin season

About 444 mm of rain falls in the season; August is the driest month (67 mm) and October the wettest (82 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	23.1	13.4	73	11	16:36
July	23.6	14.3	73	13	16:12
August	23.9	14.7	67	13	14:39
September	20.3	11.7	79	12	12:42
October	15.4	9.1	82	14	10:45
November	9.6	4.2	70	14	8:54

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Bochum, Münster is 2 days earlier and Dortmund 2 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Essen	15 km	3 June – 27 July	same day
Dortmund	18 km	5 June – 22 July	2 days later
Duisburg	32 km	3 June – 28 July	same day
Düsseldorf	41 km	3 June – 27 July	same day
Münster	60 km	1 June – 27 July	2 days earlier
Cologne	63 km	3 June – 26 July	same day

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Bochum

Buy plants ready to set out from 3 June to 26 July (from 13 May to 26 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 1 April to 14 June. Within 15 km of Bochum OpenStreetMap lists 29 garden centres, 5 farm-supply shops, 5 plant nurseries, 42 markets and 34 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Mühle Eppert — farm supply · sells seed
Schützenstraße, 45699 · 14 km · muehle-eppert.de
Horn 21 — farm supply
Hangeneystraße 90, 44379 Dortmund · 11 km · horn21.de
Buddenbergplatz — market
Wed 07:00–13:00; Sat 07:00–14:00 · 0 km · bochum.treffpunkt-wochenmarkt.de
Markt Langendreer — market
Tue 07:00–13:00; Fri 07:00–13:00 · 7 km · bochum.de

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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