When to plant pumpkins in Penza: 2 June – 20 June

In Penza, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 31 March to 9 May; plant into a greenhouse from 12 May to 20 June; plant out into open ground from 2 June to 20 June.

Pumpkin in Penza: soil, season and weather

In Penza the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 30 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 2 June, 33 days later.

Last spring frost	30 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	2 June, 33 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	15 October, 135 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	16 August – 3 September
Days left for picking	60
Daylight	14:21 on 21 April, 16:38 on 2 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, August, has 7 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Penza: 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 Penza during the pumpkin season

About 278 mm of rain falls in the season; August is the driest month (43 mm) and July the wettest (75 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	23.4	12.2	63	11	16:56
July	25.9	14.9	75	11	16:30
August	25.3	13.8	43	7	14:50
September	18	8.2	46	8	12:45
October	10.5	3.2	51	11	10:40

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant pumpkin earlier than Penza; the closest date is in Saransk, 1 day earlier.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Saransk	109 km	1 June – 19 June	1 day earlier
Saratov	198 km	28 May – 1 July	5 days earlier
Tambov	244 km	1 June – 24 June	1 day earlier
Ulyanovsk	255 km	30 May – 28 June	3 days earlier
Tolyatti	290 km	29 May – 28 June	4 days earlier
Samara	342 km	31 May – 26 June	2 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Penza

Buy plants ready to set out from 2 June to 20 June (from 12 May to 20 June for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 31 March to 9 May. Within 15 km of Penza OpenStreetMap lists 11 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 1 plant nursery, 7 markets and 4 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Торговый ряд "Конфитюр" — market
1 km
Арбековский рынок — market
4 km
Рынок у Горошка — market
11 km
Колышлейская птицефабрика — farm shop
1 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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