When to plant pumpkins in Kelowna: 2 June – 6 July

In Kelowna, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 31 March to 25 May; plant into a greenhouse from 12 May to 6 July; plant out into open ground from 2 June to 6 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Plant Gather (garden centre, 2 km) and Buckerfield's (garden centre, 12 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Kelowna: soil, season and weather

In Kelowna the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 18 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 2 June, 45 days later.

Last spring frost	18 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	2 June, 45 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	31 October, 151 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	16 August – 19 September
Days left for picking	76
Daylight	14:05 on 21 April, 16:04 on 2 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, August, has 4 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Kelowna: 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 Kelowna during the pumpkin season

About 160 mm of rain falls in the season; August is the driest month (14 mm) and October the wettest (64 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	24.8	10.9	34	7	16:19
July	30.2	15.1	20	4	15:57
August	30.1	15.6	14	4	14:30
September	23.4	11.7	28	6	12:40
October	13.7	5.4	64	12	10:50

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Kelowna, Spokane is 11 days earlier and Olympia 24 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Vancouver	270 km	22 June – 23 July	20 days later
Spokane	289 km	22 May – 20 June	11 days earlier
Victoria	325 km	13 June – 26 August	11 days later
Seattle	327 km	21 June – 30 July	19 days later
Olympia	404 km	26 June – 21 July	24 days later
Calgary	405 km	18 June – 18 July	16 days later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Kelowna

Buy plants ready to set out from 2 June to 6 July (from 12 May to 6 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 31 March to 25 May. Within 15 km of Kelowna OpenStreetMap lists 3 garden centres, 4 markets and 4 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026).

Oriental Supermarket — market
5 km
Don-O-Ray Farm Market — farm shop
3 km
Plant Gather — garden centre
Gordon Drive 1111, Kelowna · Mon–Sun 10:00–17:00 · 2 km · plantgather.com
Buckerfield's — garden centre
Main Street 2565 · 12 km · buckerfields.ca

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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