When to plant pumpkins in Como: 29 May – 29 July

In Como, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 27 March to 17 June; plant into a greenhouse from 8 May to 29 July; plant out into open ground from 29 May to 29 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Agriturismo Roccolo San Bernardo (farm shop, 10 km) and Il Magnifico Borgo (farm shop, 10 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Como: soil, season and weather

In Como the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 15 March, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 29 May, 75 days later.

Last spring frost	15 March
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	29 May, 75 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	23 November, 178 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	12 August – 12 October
Days left for picking	103
Daylight	13:37 on 17 April, 15:23 on 29 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, November, has 12 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Como: care after planting

Planted on 29 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

19 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 Como during the pumpkin season

About 1287 mm of rain falls in the season; November is the driest month (155 mm) and May the wettest (217 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	20.2	11.7	217	18	14:55
June	25.6	16.7	179	14	15:42
July	27.6	18.6	184	15	15:23
August	27.2	18.7	180	13	14:10
September	22.4	14.5	173	13	12:36
October	17.7	10.4	199	12	11:00
November	11.6	4.5	155	12	9:30

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Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Como, Milan is 17 days earlier and Bellinzona 21 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Lugano	23 km	29 May – 10 August	same day
Milan	40 km	12 May – 5 August	17 days earlier
Bellinzona	43 km	19 June – 21 July	21 days later
Locarno	46 km	30 May – 9 July	1 day later
Bergamo	47 km	31 May – 24 July	2 days later
Novara	54 km	23 May – 28 July	6 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Como

Buy plants ready to set out from 29 May to 29 July (from 8 May to 29 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 27 March to 17 June. Within 15 km of Como OpenStreetMap lists 22 garden centres, 2 farm-supply shops, 9 plant nurseries, 2 markets and 13 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Mercato di Rogeno — market
Viale Piave, 23849 Rogeno · Tue 06:00–12:30 · 15 km
Agriturismo Roccolo San Bernardo — farm shop · sells: cheese, cured_meat, honey
Roccolo, 22010 Carate Urio · Sat, Sun, public holidays open; Mon–Fri closed "solo gruppi su prenotazione" · 10 km · roccolosanbernardo.it
Floe — farm shop
via Libero Grassi 12, 22070 Bregnano · Tue–Fri 09:00–12:00; Sat 08:30–12:00 · 14 km · floelab.it
Il Magnifico Borgo — farm shop
Via Industria 5, 6850 Mendrisio · Mon–Sat 09:00–13:00 · 10 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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