When to plant pumpkins in Salzburg: 9 June – 6 July

In Salzburg, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 7 April to 25 May; plant into a greenhouse from 19 May to 6 July; plant out into open ground from 9 June to 6 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Urban Roots (farm shop, 2 km) and Beerenstadl Salzburg (farm shop, 4 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Salzburg: soil, season and weather

In Salzburg the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 22 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 9 June, 48 days later.

Last spring frost	22 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	9 June, 48 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	31 October, 144 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	23 August – 19 September
Days left for picking	69
Daylight	14:19 on 28 April, 15:55 on 9 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, October, has 13 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Salzburg: care after planting

Planted on 9 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

30 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 Salzburg during the pumpkin season

About 756 mm of rain falls in the season; October is the driest month (112 mm) and August the wettest (193 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	23.8	13.3	139	16	15:59
July	24.4	14.4	170	18	15:39
August	24.3	14.5	193	17	14:20
September	20.1	10.4	142	14	12:38
October	16.3	6.4	112	13	10:55

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Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Salzburg, Linz is 5 days earlier and Klagenfurt 24 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Linz	109 km	4 June – 18 July	5 days earlier
Munich	115 km	8 June – 15 July	1 day earlier
Innsbruck	136 km	29 June – 24 July	20 days later
Regensburg	151 km	14 June – 13 July	5 days later
Klagenfurt	163 km	3 July – 11 July	24 days later
České Budějovice	168 km	18 June – 12 July	9 days later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Salzburg

Buy plants ready to set out from 9 June to 6 July (from 19 May to 6 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 7 April to 25 May. Within 15 km of Salzburg OpenStreetMap lists 20 garden centres, 2 farm-supply shops, 4 plant nurseries, 7 markets and 15 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Bauernmarkt — farm shop
Gartenauerstraße 9, 5083 Grödig · Fri 07:00–18:00 · 8 km · fuchserei.at
Hoißeis Hoflanden — farm shop
Egelham 2, 83317 Teisendorf · Mon–Sun 08:00–20:00 · 15 km · hoisseis-biohofladen.de
Beerenstadl Salzburg — farm shop
Aigner Straße 134, 5061 Salzburg · 4 km · lehners-beeren.at
Urban Roots — farm shop
General-Keyes-Straße 40a, 5020 Salzburg · "nach Vereinbarung" · 2 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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