When to plant pumpkins in Cheboksary: 2 June – 22 June

In Cheboksary, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 31 March to 11 May; plant into a greenhouse from 12 May to 22 June; plant out into open ground from 2 June to 22 June. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include ЦветНик (garden centre, 2 km) and Садовод (garden centre, 14 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Cheboksary: soil, season and weather

In Cheboksary the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 1 May, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 2 June, 32 days later.

Last spring frost	1 May
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	2 June, 32 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	17 October, 137 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	16 August – 5 September
Days left for picking	62
Daylight	14:37 on 21 April, 17:15 on 2 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, September, has 11 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Cheboksary: care after planting

Planted on 2 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

23 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 Cheboksary during the pumpkin season

About 297 mm of rain falls in the season; September is the driest month (47 mm) and July the wettest (81 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	22.1	11.8	51	10	17:37
July	24.7	14.9	81	12	17:05
August	23.5	13.7	61	9	15:10
September	16.4	8	47	11	12:50
October	8.8	2.7	57	12	10:31

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Cheboksary, Ulyanovsk is 3 days earlier and Kirov 6 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Yoshkar-Ola	69 km	3 June – 17 June	1 day later
Kazan	122 km	1 June – 18 June	1 day earlier
Nizhny Novgorod	202 km	2 June – 23 June	same day
Ulyanovsk	213 km	30 May – 28 June	3 days earlier
Saransk	254 km	1 June – 19 June	1 day earlier
Kirov	310 km	8 June – 19 July	6 days later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Cheboksary

Buy plants ready to set out from 2 June to 22 June (from 12 May to 22 June for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 31 March to 11 May. Within 15 km of Cheboksary OpenStreetMap lists 8 garden centres, 9 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

ЦветНик — garden centre
Mon–Sun 08:00–21:00 · 2 km
Садовод — garden centre
Mon–Sat 08:00–19:00; Sun 08:00–18:00 · 14 km
Семена — garden centre
Mon–Sat 08:00–19:00, Sun 08:00–18:00 · 15 km
ТК «X-Park» — market
08:00–19:00 · 3 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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