When to plant pumpkins in Cahul: 27 May – 23 July

In Cahul, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 25 March to 11 June; plant into a greenhouse from 6 May to 23 July; plant out into open ground from 27 May to 23 July.

Pumpkin in Cahul: soil, season and weather

In Cahul the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 4 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 27 May, 53 days later.

Last spring frost	4 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	27 May, 53 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	17 November, 174 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	10 August – 6 October
Days left for picking	99
Daylight	13:31 on 15 April, 15:21 on 27 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, August, has 5 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Cahul: care after planting

Planted on 27 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

17 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 Cahul during the pumpkin season

About 350 mm of rain falls in the season; August is the driest month (28 mm) and June the wettest (75 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	21.3	10.7	61	10	14:55
June	26.7	16.3	75	10	15:43
July	28.8	18.1	49	6	15:24
August	29.1	18	28	5	14:11
September	23.8	13.4	45	5	12:36
October	16.9	7.8	47	6	11:00
November	10	3	45	7	9:30

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

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

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Izmail	79 km	20 May – 30 July	7 days earlier
Chișinău	134 km	24 May – 23 July	3 days earlier
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi	170 km	17 May – 1 August	10 days earlier
Odesa	205 km	23 May – 31 July	4 days earlier
Bălți	208 km	21 May – 6 July	6 days earlier
Bucharest	231 km	23 May – 25 July	4 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Cahul

Buy plants ready to set out from 27 May to 23 July (from 6 May to 23 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 25 March to 11 June. Within 15 km of Cahul OpenStreetMap lists 1 market (collected 27 October 2026).

Piața Centrală — 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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