When to plant pumpkins in Worcester: 19 June – 28 July

In Worcester, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 17 April to 16 June; plant into a greenhouse from 29 May to 28 July; plant out into open ground from 19 June to 28 July.

Pumpkin in Worcester: soil, season and weather

In Worcester the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 15 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 19 June, 65 days later.

Last spring frost	15 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	19 June, 65 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	22 November, 156 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	2 September – 11 October
Days left for picking	81
Daylight	15:18 on 8 May, 16:46 on 19 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, August, has 11 rainy days

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

Pumpkin in Worcester: care after planting

Planted on 19 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

10 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 Worcester during the pumpkin season

About 421 mm of rain falls in the season; August is the driest month (59 mm) and October the wettest (84 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	19.9	11	68	12	16:44
July	21.6	12.8	63	12	16:19
August	21.2	12.7	59	11	14:44
September	18.6	10.6	71	12	12:43
October	14.6	8.1	84	13	10:43
November	10.2	4.6	76	13	8:49

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

1 of the nearest cities share Worcester's date.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Birmingham	40 km	20 June – 25 July	1 day later
Coventry	54 km	21 June – 23 July	2 days later
Oxford	82 km	23 June – 29 July	4 days later
Bristol	86 km	19 June – 28 July	same day
Leicester	89 km	21 June – 25 July	2 days later
Stoke-on-Trent	93 km	20 June – 21 July	1 day later

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Worcester

Buy plants ready to set out from 19 June to 28 July (from 29 May to 28 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 17 April to 16 June. Within 15 km of Worcester OpenStreetMap lists 10 garden centres, 4 plant nurseries, 2 markets and 8 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Clive's Farmshop & Butchery — farm shop
14 km
Three Counties Farm Shop — farm shop
4 km
Spetchley Farm Shop and Nursery — farm shop
7 km
Norbury's — farm shop
10 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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