When to plant pumpkins in Stirling: 11 July – 15 July

In Stirling, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 9 May to 3 June; plant into a greenhouse from 20 June to 15 July; plant out into open ground from 11 July to 15 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Dobbies (garden centre, 3 km) and Stockbridge Garden Nursery (garden centre, 9 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Stirling: soil, season and weather

In Stirling the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 29 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 11 July, 73 days later. 121 days separate planting out (11 July) from the first autumn frost (9 November); the card's 75 days to the first harvest leave 46 for picking, so a start 6 weeks late would still fit.

Last spring frost	29 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	11 July, 73 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	9 November, 121 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	24 September – 28 September
Days left for picking	46
Daylight	17:07 on 30 May, 17:15 on 11 July
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, November, has 16 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Stirling: care after planting

Planted on 11 July: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

1 August — 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 Stirling during the pumpkin season

About 620 mm of rain falls in the season; November is the driest month (111 mm) and October the wettest (143 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
July	17.6	10.7	112	18	17:05
August	17.1	10.5	135	18	15:10
September	15	8.8	119	17	12:50
October	11.5	6.3	143	17	10:31
November	7.7	2.9	111	16	8:16

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Stirling, Edinburgh is 5 days earlier and Glasgow 10 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Glasgow	35 km	21 July – 28 August	10 days later
Perth (United Kingdom)	44 km	19 July – 28 August	8 days later
Edinburgh	50 km	6 July – 15 July	5 days earlier
Dundee	71 km	21 July – 29 August	10 days later
Carlisle	151 km	15 July – 21 July	4 days later
Inverness	152 km	17 July – 19 July	6 days later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Stirling

Buy plants ready to set out from 11 July to 15 July (from 20 June to 15 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 9 May to 3 June. Within 15 km of Stirling OpenStreetMap lists 6 garden centres, 1 plant nursery and 3 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Torwood Garden Centre — garden centre
Bellsdyke Road, FK5 4EG Larbert · Mon–Sat 09:00–17:30; Sun 10:00–17:30 · 11 km · torwoodgardencentre.co.uk
Stockbridge Garden Nursery — garden centre
Kilbryde Road, FK15 9ND Dunblane · 9 km · molawn.com
Dobbies — garden centre
public holidays, Mon–Sun 09:00–18:00 · 3 km
Greenyards Garden Centre — garden centre
4 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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