When to plant pumpkins in Orenburg: 27 May – 16 June

In Orenburg, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 25 March to 5 May; plant into a greenhouse from 6 May to 16 June; plant out into open ground from 27 May to 16 June. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Заречье (farm shop, 4 km) and Салмыш (farm shop, 5 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Orenburg: soil, season and weather

In Orenburg 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 27 May, 32 days later.

Last spring frost	25 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	27 May, 32 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	11 October, 137 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	10 August – 30 August
Days left for picking	62
Daylight	13:51 on 15 April, 16:10 on 27 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, August, has 5 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Orenburg: care after planting

Planted on 27 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

17 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 Orenburg during the pumpkin season

About 217 mm of rain falls in the season; August is the driest month (27 mm) and October the wettest (43 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	22	8.8	40	7	15:37
June	26.4	13.9	38	7	16:39
July	29.4	16.7	38	6	16:15
August	28.3	15.3	27	5	14:41
September	19.9	8.5	31	6	12:43
October	11.5	2.4	43	8	10:45

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Orenburg, Oral (Uralsk) is 1 day earlier and Sterlitamak 6 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Sterlitamak	216 km	2 June – 11 June	6 days later
Aktobe	220 km	28 May – 14 June	1 day later
Oral (Uralsk)	260 km	26 May – 18 June	1 day earlier
Magnitogorsk	320 km	2 June – 13 July	6 days later
Ufa	335 km	31 May – 6 June	4 days later
Samara	371 km	31 May – 26 June	4 days later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Orenburg

Buy plants ready to set out from 27 May to 16 June (from 6 May to 16 June for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 25 March to 5 May. Within 15 km of Orenburg OpenStreetMap lists 11 farm-supply shops, 11 markets and 37 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Заречье — farm shop
Чистопольская улица 1А, Оренбург · 4 km
Салмыш — farm shop
проспект Победы 144, Оренбург · 5 km
Ксения — farm shop
проспект Победы 150, Оренбург · 5 km
Продукты — farm shop
Манежная улица 20, Оренбург · 6 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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