When to plant pumpkins in Venice: 16 May – 11 August

In Venice, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 14 March to 30 June; plant into a greenhouse from 25 April to 11 August; plant out into open ground from 16 May to 11 August. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Vivaio MunarettoPlants (garden centre, 9 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Venice: soil, season and weather

In Venice the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 19 February, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 16 May, 86 days later.

Last spring frost	19 February
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	16 May, 86 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	6 December, 204 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	30 July – 25 October
Days left for picking	129
Daylight	12:55 on 4 April, 14:55 on 16 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, July, has 9 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Venice: care after planting

Planted on 16 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

6 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 Venice during the pumpkin season

About 729 mm of rain falls in the season; July is the driest month (62 mm) and May the wettest (136 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	21	13.7	136	14	14:52
June	26.4	18.9	73	9	15:39
July	28.6	20.7	62	9	15:21
August	28.9	20.8	80	8	14:09
September	24.2	16.6	118	10	12:35
October	19.2	12.1	90	9	11:01
November	13.2	6.7	106	10	9:32
December	9	2.4	64	7	8:45

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Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Venice, Ferrara is 3 days earlier and Verona 13 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Treviso	27 km	19 May – 29 July	3 days later
Padua	35 km	15 May – 3 August	1 day earlier
Vicenza	62 km	24 May – 30 July	8 days later
Ferrara	87 km	13 May – 3 August	3 days earlier
Udine	99 km	23 May – 28 July	7 days later
Verona	105 km	29 May – 2 August	13 days later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Venice

Buy plants ready to set out from 16 May to 11 August (from 25 April to 11 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 14 March to 30 June. Within 15 km of Venice OpenStreetMap lists 5 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 7 markets and 4 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026).

Vivaio MunarettoPlants — garden centre
Via Alberoni 47, 30126 Venezia · 9 km
Burano Market — market
Mon–Sat 07:00–20:00 · 8 km · veneziaunica.it
Weekly Lido Market — market
Tue 07:00–14:00 · 5 km
Mercato settimanale di Marghera — market
Tue, Sat 08:00–13:00 · 9 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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