When to plant pumpkins in Ulan-Ude: 12 June – 16 July

In Ulan-Ude, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 10 April to 4 June; plant into a greenhouse from 22 May to 16 July; plant out into open ground from 12 June to 16 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Сагаан Дали (farm shop, 6 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Ulan-Ude: soil, season and weather

In Ulan-Ude the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 13 May, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 12 June, 30 days later. 109 days separate planting out (12 June) from the first autumn frost (29 September); the card's 75 days to the first harvest leave 34 for picking, so a start 4 weeks late would still fit.

Last spring frost	13 May
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	12 June, 30 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	29 September, 109 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	26 August – 29 September
Days left for picking	34
Daylight	14:51 on 1 May, 16:38 on 12 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, June, has 7 rainy days

The same dates in Ulan-Ude hold for Cucumber, Bell Pepper, Eggplant, Zucchini and Watermelon.

Pumpkin in Ulan-Ude: care after planting

Planted on 12 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

3 July — 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 Ulan-Ude during the pumpkin season

About 213 mm of rain falls in the season; June is the driest month (37 mm) and August the wettest (73 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	24.8	12.4	37	7	16:40
July	26.9	15.6	63	10	16:15
August	23.5	13.2	73	10	14:41
September	16.6	6.2	40	9	12:43

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant pumpkin later than Ulan-Ude; the closest date is in Kemerovo, 1 day later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Irkutsk	231 km	15 June – 17 July	3 days later
Chita	404 km	22 June – 10 July	10 days later
Krasnoyarsk	1,069 km	18 June – 14 July	6 days later
Novokuznetsk	1,387 km	14 June – 17 July	2 days later
Blagoveshchensk	1,399 km	15 June – 20 July	3 days later
Kemerovo	1,465 km	13 June – 13 July	1 day later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Ulan-Ude

Buy plants ready to set out from 12 June to 16 July (from 22 May to 16 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 10 April to 4 June. Within 15 km of Ulan-Ude OpenStreetMap lists 1 garden centre and 1 farm shop (collected 27 October 2026).

Сагаан Дали — farm shop
Зеленоградская улица 3А · 6 km
Семена — garden centre
11 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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