When to plant pumpkins in Ústí nad Labem: 22 June – 18 July

In Ústí nad Labem, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 20 April to 6 June; plant into a greenhouse from 1 June to 18 July; plant out into open ground from 22 June to 18 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Zahradnické centrum Teplice (garden centre, 14 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Ústí nad Labem: soil, season and weather

In Ústí nad Labem the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 27 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 22 June, 56 days later.

Last spring frost	27 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	22 June, 56 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	12 November, 143 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	5 September – 1 October
Days left for picking	68
Daylight	15:17 on 11 May, 16:29 on 22 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, November, has 11 rainy days

The same dates in Ústí nad Labem hold for Cucumber, Bell Pepper, Eggplant, Zucchini and Watermelon.

Pumpkin in Ústí nad Labem: care after planting

Planted on 22 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

13 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 Ústí nad Labem during the pumpkin season

About 440 mm of rain falls in the season; November is the driest month (48 mm) and August the wettest (88 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	21.4	12.4	79	12	16:27
July	22.2	13.3	87	13	16:04
August	22.2	13.5	88	13	14:35
September	18	10.1	70	11	12:41
October	12.2	6.2	68	13	10:48
November	5.4	0.9	48	11	9:00

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Pumpkin in nearby cities

1 of the nearest cities share Ústí nad Labem's date.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Dresden	48 km	5 June – 24 July	17 days earlier
Prague	71 km	3 June – 14 July	19 days earlier
Liberec	74 km	22 June – 7 July	same day
Plzeň	111 km	18 June – 11 July	4 days earlier
Hradec Králové	137 km	7 June – 17 July	15 days earlier
Leipzig	139 km	5 June – 23 July	17 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Ústí nad Labem

Buy plants ready to set out from 22 June to 18 July (from 1 June to 18 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 20 April to 6 June. Within 15 km of Ústí nad Labem OpenStreetMap lists 1 garden centre, 1 market and 1 farm shop (collected 28 October 2026).

Zahradnické centrum Teplice — garden centre
Stanová 1998, 41501 · Mon–Sun 08:00–19:00 · 14 km · dvorakasyn.cz
Ústecká burza — market
4 km
Vacheria - farma Kletečná — farm shop
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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