When to plant pumpkins in Yoshkar-Ola: 3 June – 17 June

In Yoshkar-Ola, pumpkin: sow for seedlings from 1 April to 6 May; plant into a greenhouse from 13 May to 17 June; plant out into open ground from 3 June to 17 June.

Pumpkin in Yoshkar-Ola: soil, season and weather

In Yoshkar-Ola the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 7 May, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the pumpkin card — only around 3 June, 27 days later. 131 days separate planting out (3 June) from the first autumn frost (12 October); the card's 75 days to the first harvest leave 56 for picking, so a start 8 weeks late would still fit.

Last spring frost	7 May
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	3 June, 27 days after the last frost
First autumn frost	12 October, 131 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	75
First harvest, if planted in this window	17 August – 31 August
Days left for picking	56
Daylight	14:45 on 22 April, 17:25 on 3 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 5 days; the driest month, September, has 10 rainy days

The same dates in Yoshkar-Ola hold for Cucumber, Bell Pepper, Eggplant, Zucchini and Watermelon.

Pumpkin in Yoshkar-Ola: care after planting

Planted on 3 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

24 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 Yoshkar-Ola during the pumpkin season

About 274 mm of rain falls in the season; September is the driest month (44 mm) and July the wettest (69 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	21.6	10.8	53	9	17:45
July	24.4	14	69	12	17:12
August	23.2	12.7	53	9	15:14
September	16.1	6.9	44	10	12:51
October	8.4	1.9	55	12	10:29

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Pumpkin in nearby cities

Around Yoshkar-Ola, Ulyanovsk is 4 days earlier and Kirov 5 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Cheboksary	69 km	2 June – 22 June	1 day earlier
Kazan	121 km	1 June – 18 June	2 days earlier
Nizhny Novgorod	241 km	2 June – 23 June	1 day earlier
Kirov	242 km	8 June – 19 July	5 days later
Ulyanovsk	259 km	30 May – 28 June	4 days earlier
Naberezhnye Chelny	298 km	1 June – 15 June	2 days earlier

Where to buy pumpkin plants and seeds near Yoshkar-Ola

Buy plants ready to set out from 3 June to 17 June (from 13 May to 17 June for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 1 April to 6 May. Within 15 km of Yoshkar-Ola OpenStreetMap lists 3 garden centres, 5 farm-supply shops, 3 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Central market — market
Первомайская улица 115 · 1 km
Всё для дачи и садоводов — garden centre
2 km
Оптовая база — market
3 km
Мини рынок — market
4 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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