When to plant pumpkins in Łódź: 6 June – 10 July

In Łódź, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 4 April to 29 May; plant into a greenhouse from 16 May to 10 July; plant out into open ground from 6 June to 10 July.

Pumpkin in Łódź: soil, season and weather

In Łódź the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 16 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 6 June, 51 days later.

Last spring frost	16 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	6 June, 51 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	4 November, 151 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	20 August – 23 September
Days left for picking	76
Daylight	14:29 on 25 April, 16:29 on 6 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, November, has 9 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Łódź: care after planting

Planted on 6 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

27 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 Łódź during the pumpkin season

About 411 mm of rain falls in the season; November is the driest month (40 mm) and July the wettest (89 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	23.6	13.2	68	10	16:39
July	24.3	14.6	89	13	16:15
August	24.5	14.6	86	11	14:41
September	19.8	10.9	64	10	12:43
October	13.7	6.5	64	12	10:45
November	7.1	1.9	40	9	8:52

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Łódź, Opole is 4 days earlier and Radom 1 day later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Częstochowa	108 km	5 June – 16 July	1 day earlier
Warsaw	118 km	6 June – 23 July	same day
Radom	123 km	7 June – 21 July	1 day later
Kielce	128 km	7 June – 10 July	1 day later
Toruń	151 km	3 June – 18 July	3 days earlier
Opole	161 km	2 June – 24 July	4 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Łódź

Buy plants ready to set out from 6 June to 10 July (from 16 May to 10 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 4 April to 29 May. Within 15 km of Łódź OpenStreetMap lists 18 garden centres, 2 farm-supply shops, 8 plant nurseries and 27 markets (collected 28 October 2026).

Ryneczek — market
Marysińska 86a, Łódź · 4 km
Ogrody Zofii — garden centre
7 km · ogrody-zofii.pl
Lustan — garden centre
10 km · lustan.com.pl
Wolski sklep z wrzosami i wrzoścami — garden centre
8 km · sklep.wolski.com.pl

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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