When to plant pumpkins in Szczecin: 5 June – 23 July

In Szczecin, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 3 April to 11 June; plant into a greenhouse from 15 May to 23 July; plant out into open ground from 5 June to 23 July.

Pumpkin in Szczecin: soil, season and weather

In Szczecin 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 5 June, 44 days later.

Last spring frost	22 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	5 June, 44 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	17 November, 165 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	19 August – 6 October
Days left for picking	90
Daylight	14:34 on 24 April, 16:47 on 5 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, September, has 7 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Szczecin: care after planting

Planted on 5 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

26 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 Szczecin during the pumpkin season

About 388 mm of rain falls in the season; September is the driest month (48 mm) and July the wettest (105 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	23.3	13	67	11	16:59
July	23.2	14.1	105	13	16:32
August	23.7	14.3	61	12	14:51
September	20	11.4	48	7	12:45
October	14.1	7.6	59	12	10:40
November	7.8	3	48	10	8:40

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Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Szczecin, Berlin is 5 days earlier and Rostock 6 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Berlin	127 km	31 May – 25 July	5 days earlier
Potsdam	152 km	3 June – 27 July	2 days earlier
Rostock	177 km	11 June – 23 July	6 days later
Zielona Góra	178 km	1 June – 19 July	4 days earlier
Poznań	196 km	6 June – 22 July	1 day later
Bydgoszcz	233 km	6 June – 18 July	1 day later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Szczecin

Buy plants ready to set out from 5 June to 23 July (from 15 May to 23 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 3 April to 11 June. Within 15 km of Szczecin OpenStreetMap lists 18 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 1 plant nursery, 13 markets and 4 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Rozsady — farm supply
4 km
Rolhurt — market
7 km · rolhurt.pl
Ryneczek Kilińskiego — market
1 km
Targowisko Manhattan — market
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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