When to plant pumpkins in Chita: 22 June – 10 July

In Chita, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 20 April to 29 May; plant into a greenhouse from 1 June to 10 July; plant out into open ground from 22 June to 10 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Продуктовый магазин (farm shop, 16 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Chita: soil, season and weather

In Chita the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 19 May, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 22 June, 34 days later. Planting out on 22 June leaves 93 days to the first autumn frost on 23 September, only 18 more than the card's 75 days to the first harvest; an unheated greenhouse, three weeks earlier, would add 21.

Last spring frost	19 May
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	22 June, 34 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	23 September, 93 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	5 September – 23 September
Days left for picking	18
Daylight	15:27 on 11 May, 16:45 on 22 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, June, has 10 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Chita: care after planting

Planted on 22 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

13 July — 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 Chita during the pumpkin season

About 310 mm of rain falls in the season; June is the driest month (52 mm) and July the wettest (109 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	23.5	10.9	52	10	16:42
July	25.1	14.3	109	11	16:17
August	21.6	11.6	88	11	14:43
September	15.3	4.9	61	9	12:43

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Chita, Ulan-Ude is 10 days earlier and Yakutsk 6 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Ulan-Ude	404 km	12 June – 16 July	10 days earlier
Irkutsk	627 km	15 June – 17 July	7 days earlier
Blagoveshchensk	997 km	15 June – 20 July	7 days earlier
Krasnoyarsk	1,412 km	18 June – 14 July	4 days earlier
Yakutsk	1,474 km	28 June – 5 July	6 days later
Khabarovsk	1,579 km	15 June – 21 June	7 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Chita

Buy plants ready to set out from 22 June to 10 July (from 1 June to 10 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 20 April to 29 May. Within 15 km of Chita OpenStreetMap lists 5 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Фермерский рынок — market
6 km
Витэн — market
улица Чкалова 1А · 3 km
Каштакский — market
Mon–Fri 08:30–20:00 · 5 km
Продуктовый магазин — farm shop
Ленская улица 40А · 16 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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