When to plant pumpkins in Guarda: 28 May – 31 July

In Guarda, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 26 March to 19 June; plant into a greenhouse from 7 May to 31 July; plant out into open ground from 28 May to 31 July.

Pumpkin in Guarda: soil, season and weather

In Guarda the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 2 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 28 May, 56 days later.

Last spring frost	2 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	28 May, 56 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	25 November, 181 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	11 August – 14 October
Days left for picking	106
Daylight	13:19 on 16 April, 14:47 on 28 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, August, has 1 rainy day

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

Pumpkin in Guarda: care after planting

Planted on 28 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

18 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 Guarda during the pumpkin season

About 352 mm of rain falls in the season; August is the driest month (4 mm) and October the wettest (109 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	18.8	8.2	51	8	14:25
June	23	11.8	43	8	15:03
July	27.8	14.5	6	2	14:48
August	28.4	14.9	4	1	13:49
September	22.8	11.7	39	6	12:30
October	18.2	9.4	109	11	11:11
November	11.3	4.6	100	12	9:57

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant pumpkin earlier than Guarda; the closest date is in Viseu, 1 day earlier.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Viseu	56 km	27 May – 15 August	1 day earlier
Castelo Branco	82 km	30 April – 31 August	28 days earlier
Vila Real	93 km	18 May – 27 August	10 days earlier
Coimbra	105 km	from 12 May	16 days earlier
Plasencia	115 km	8 May – 4 September	20 days earlier
Porto	132 km	22 May – 24 August	6 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Guarda

Buy plants ready to set out from 28 May to 31 July (from 7 May to 31 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 26 March to 19 June. Within 15 km of Guarda OpenStreetMap lists 2 markets (collected 27 October 2026).

Mercado Municipal da Guarda — market
1 km
Mercado Municipal de S. Miguel da Guarda — market
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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