When to plant pumpkins in Ostrava: 8 June – 15 July

In Ostrava, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 6 April to 3 June; plant into a greenhouse from 18 May to 15 July; plant out into open ground from 8 June to 15 July.

Pumpkin in Ostrava: soil, season and weather

In Ostrava the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 19 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 8 June, 50 days later.

Last spring frost	19 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	8 June, 50 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	9 November, 154 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	22 August – 28 September
Days left for picking	79
Daylight	14:26 on 27 April, 16:12 on 8 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, November, has 10 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Ostrava: care after planting

Planted on 8 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

29 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 Ostrava during the pumpkin season

About 513 mm of rain falls in the season; November is the driest month (54 mm) and August the wettest (103 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	23.6	13.5	83	14	16:19
July	24.8	14.8	97	14	15:56
August	25	15	103	11	14:30
September	20.1	11.2	102	11	12:40
October	14.7	6.9	74	12	10:50
November	8.1	2.2	54	10	9:06

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant pumpkin earlier than Ostrava; the closest date is in Katowice, 2 days earlier.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Katowice	73 km	6 June – 22 July	2 days earlier
Olomouc	77 km	3 June – 12 July	5 days earlier
Zlín	79 km	6 June – 12 July	2 days earlier
Opole	97 km	2 June – 24 July	6 days earlier
Kraków	123 km	6 June – 7 July	2 days earlier
Częstochowa	126 km	5 June – 16 July	3 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Ostrava

Buy plants ready to set out from 8 June to 15 July (from 18 May to 15 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 6 April to 3 June. Within 15 km of Ostrava OpenStreetMap lists 10 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 3 markets and 1 farm shop (collected 28 October 2026).

Zahrady R+R — garden centre
9 km · zahradyrr.cz
Zahradní centrum Vykrut — garden centre
3 km
Agrocenter — garden centre
10 km
Bálek - Zahradnické centrum — garden centre
10 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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