When to plant pumpkins in Vicenza: 24 May – 30 July

In Vicenza, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 22 March to 18 June; plant into a greenhouse from 3 May to 30 July; plant out into open ground from 24 May to 30 July.

Pumpkin in Vicenza: soil, season and weather

In Vicenza the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 16 March, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 24 May, 69 days later.

Last spring frost	16 March
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	24 May, 69 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	24 November, 184 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	7 August – 13 October
Days left for picking	109
Daylight	13:20 on 12 April, 15:12 on 24 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, July, has 11 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Vicenza: care after planting

Planted on 24 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

14 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 Vicenza during the pumpkin season

About 807 mm of rain falls in the season; July is the driest month (86 mm) and May the wettest (167 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	21.4	11.9	167	16	14:53
June	27.3	16.9	94	11	15:40
July	29.4	18.8	86	11	15:22
August	29.2	18.7	99	10	14:09
September	24.2	14.4	128	10	12:35
October	19	10.1	118	9	11:00
November	12.6	4.7	115	10	9:32

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Vicenza, Mantua is 10 days earlier and Trento 26 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Padua	30 km	15 May – 3 August	9 days earlier
Verona	45 km	29 May – 2 August	5 days later
Treviso	55 km	19 May – 29 July	5 days earlier
Venice	62 km	16 May – 11 August	8 days earlier
Trento	67 km	19 June – 16 July	26 days later
Mantua	74 km	14 May – 3 August	10 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Vicenza

Buy plants ready to set out from 24 May to 30 July (from 3 May to 30 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 22 March to 18 June. Within 15 km of Vicenza OpenStreetMap lists 7 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 1 plant nursery, 2 markets and 14 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Azienda Agricola Francesco di Tacchi — farm shop
10 km · detacchi.it
Agriturismo Villa Corona — farm shop
2 km
Azienda agricola Cortiana Giandomenico — farm shop · sells: apple
11 km
Il lavandeto della Lobia — farm shop
5 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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