When to plant pumpkins in Kursk: 29 May – 26 June

In Kursk, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 27 March to 15 May; plant into a greenhouse from 8 May to 26 June; plant out into open ground from 29 May to 26 June. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include У-дачный (farm supply, 4 km) and Евросад (garden centre, 13 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Kursk: soil, season and weather

In Kursk the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 25 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 29 May, 34 days later.

Last spring frost	25 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	29 May, 34 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	21 October, 145 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	12 August – 9 September
Days left for picking	70
Daylight	13:59 on 17 April, 16:14 on 29 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, September, has 6 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Kursk: 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 Kursk during the pumpkin season

About 336 mm of rain falls in the season; September is the driest month (36 mm) and July the wettest (70 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	19.1	8.4	59	11	15:37
June	23.9	13.6	61	11	16:39
July	25.7	15.5	70	12	16:14
August	25.8	14.9	50	7	14:41
September	19.8	9.8	36	6	12:43
October	12.1	4.4	60	11	10:45

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Kursk, Kharkiv is 2 days earlier and Oryol 13 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Stary Oskol	125 km	29 May – 27 June	same day
Belgorod	129 km	30 May – 25 June	1 day later
Sumy	132 km	29 May – 25 June	same day
Oryol	138 km	11 June – 21 June	13 days later
Shostka	187 km	30 May – 25 June	1 day later
Kharkiv	194 km	27 May – 26 June	2 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Kursk

Buy plants ready to set out from 29 May to 26 June (from 8 May to 26 June for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 27 March to 15 May. Within 15 km of Kursk OpenStreetMap lists 6 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 1 plant nursery, 10 markets and 4 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Нива черноземье — farm shop
10 km
Ермолино — farm shop
11 km
Евросад — garden centre
Mon–Sun 08:00–17:00 · 13 km · evrosad7.ru
У-дачный — farm supply
Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00; Sat–Sun 09:00–15:00 · 4 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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