When to plant pumpkins in Victoria: 13 June – 26 August

In Victoria, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 11 April to 15 July; plant into a greenhouse from 23 May to 26 August; plant out into open ground from 13 June to 26 August. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Mr. Fertilizer (garden centre, 2 km) and GardenWorks Oak Bay (garden centre, 4 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Pumpkin in Victoria: soil, season and weather

In Victoria the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 1 March, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 13 June, 104 days later.

Last spring frost	1 March
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	13 June, 104 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	21 December, 191 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	27 August – 9 November
Days left for picking	116
Daylight	14:35 on 2 May, 16:04 on 13 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, July, has 2 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Victoria: care after planting

Planted on 13 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

4 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 Victoria during the pumpkin season

About 600 mm of rain falls in the season; July is the driest month (11 mm) and December the wettest (177 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	20.8	12.1	32	6	16:05
July	24.4	14.6	11	2	15:44
August	24.6	15.3	22	4	14:23
September	20.1	12.9	58	8	12:39
October	14	8.7	126	14	10:54
November	9.8	5.8	174	18	9:15
December	7.2	3.4	177	19	8:21

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Victoria, Kelowna is 11 days earlier and Olympia 13 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Vancouver	96 km	22 June – 23 July	9 days later
Seattle	120 km	21 June – 30 July	8 days later
Olympia	159 km	26 June – 21 July	13 days later
Kelowna	325 km	2 June – 6 July	11 days earlier
Portland	328 km	17 June – 28 July	4 days later
Salem	389 km	6 June – 23 July	7 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Victoria

Buy plants ready to set out from 13 June to 26 August (from 23 May to 26 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 11 April to 15 July. Within 15 km of Victoria OpenStreetMap lists 6 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 7 markets and 6 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026).

GARDENWORKS — garden centre
Blenkinsop Road 4290, V8X 2C2 Saanich · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00, Mon - Fri 13:00 - 18:00 "closed during heat wave" · 6 km · gardenworks.ca
GardenWorks Oak Bay — garden centre
Oak Bay Avenue 2036 · Mon–Sun 09:00–18:00 · 4 km · gardenworks.ca
Gardenworks — garden centre
Island Highway 1859 · Mon–Sun 09:00–18:00 · 7 km · gardenworks.ca
Mr. Fertilizer — garden centre
Burnside Road West 9, V9A 1B2 · 2 km · shopvictoria.ca

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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