When to plant pumpkins in Taganrog: 25 May – 21 July

In Taganrog, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 23 March to 9 June; plant into a greenhouse from 4 May to 21 July; plant out into open ground from 25 May to 21 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Мир удобрений (garden centre, 8 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Taganrog: soil, season and weather

In Taganrog the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 27 March, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 25 May, 59 days later.

Last spring frost	27 March
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	25 May, 59 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	15 November, 174 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	8 August – 4 October
Days left for picking	99
Daylight	13:28 on 13 April, 15:27 on 25 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, August, has 4 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Taganrog: care after planting

Planted on 25 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

15 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 Taganrog during the pumpkin season

About 285 mm of rain falls in the season; August is the driest month (21 mm) and May the wettest (69 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	20.8	12.6	69	10	15:04
June	26.6	18	44	7	15:54
July	29.4	20.3	31	6	15:34
August	29.4	20	21	4	14:17
September	22.9	14.3	26	5	12:37
October	15.3	8.3	42	7	10:56
November	7.9	2.7	52	8	9:22

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Taganrog, Krasnodar is 8 days earlier and Pavlohrad 2 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Rostov-on-Don	61 km	24 May – 15 July	1 day earlier
Krasnodar	245 km	17 May – 24 July	8 days earlier
Pavlohrad	268 km	27 May – 12 July	2 days later
Zaporizhzhia	291 km	20 May – 18 July	5 days earlier
Novorossiysk	293 km	23 May – 1 August	2 days earlier
Dnipro	318 km	26 May – 14 July	1 day later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Taganrog

Buy plants ready to set out from 25 May to 21 July (from 4 May to 21 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 23 March to 9 June. Within 15 km of Taganrog OpenStreetMap lists 4 garden centres, 6 markets and 1 farm shop (collected 27 October 2026).

Бакалея — market
2 km
Рынок Приморский — market
4 km
Мир удобрений — garden centre
Mon–Fri 09:00–16:00; Sat 09:00–14:00 · 8 km
Русское поле — market
08:30–20:00 · 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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