When to plant pumpkins in Brno: 6 June – 12 July

In Brno, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 4 April to 31 May; plant into a greenhouse from 16 May to 12 July; plant out into open ground from 6 June to 12 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Ovoce zelenina potraviny (farm shop, 1 km) and Bedýnky Brno (farm shop, 1 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Brno: soil, season and weather

In Brno the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 24 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 6 June, 43 days later.

Last spring frost	24 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	6 June, 43 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	6 November, 153 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	20 August – 25 September
Days left for picking	78
Daylight	14:16 on 25 April, 16:04 on 6 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, October, has 9 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Brno: care after planting

Planted on 6 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

27 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 Brno during the pumpkin season

About 382 mm of rain falls in the season; October is the driest month (44 mm) and September the wettest (83 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	24.2	13.6	71	11	16:12
July	25.5	14.9	69	11	15:51
August	25.5	15	70	9	14:27
September	20.4	11	83	10	12:39
October	14.3	6.4	44	9	10:52
November	7.4	1.7	45	9	9:10

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Brno, Bratislava is 6 days earlier and Vienna 2 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Olomouc	63 km	3 June – 12 July	3 days earlier
Zlín	77 km	6 June – 12 July	same day
Pardubice	111 km	5 June – 16 July	1 day earlier
Vienna	111 km	8 June – 18 July	2 days later
Bratislava	122 km	31 May – 22 July	6 days earlier
Hradec Králové	126 km	7 June – 17 July	1 day later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Brno

Buy plants ready to set out from 6 June to 12 July (from 16 May to 12 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 4 April to 31 May. Within 15 km of Brno OpenStreetMap lists 15 garden centres, 3 farm-supply shops, 1 plant nursery, 6 markets and 7 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Bedýnky Brno — farm shop
Wed, Thu 14:00–19:00 · 1 km · eshop.bedynkybrno.cz
Ovocnářské družstvo - obchod — farm shop
Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00; Sat 08:00–12:00 · 5 km · jablka.cz
Statek Jinačovice — farm shop
Thu–Sun 11:00–17:00 · 9 km · statekjinacovice.cz
Ovoce zelenina potraviny — farm shop
Mon–Fri 06:00–17:00; Sat, Sun 11:00–16:00 · 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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