Vegetables · Warm
Pumpkin
Cucurbitaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 100 cm
- USDA zones
- 4a–10a
- Frost-sensitive
- yes
- Growth duration
- 16 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- raised-bed mixAlso okay:loamy
- Drainage (prefers)
- normal
Seed & start
Pre-culture recommended
Start indoors / cold frame first, transplant into the raised bed later.
Stachi's tip
Pumpkin is a space tyrant — one plant needs 2-3 m² of sprawl. In a raised bed only if you let it cascade over the edge. Water-thirsty but otherwise easy. Three-sisters partner to bean and corn.
Sowing
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Transplanting
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- Kreuter, Bio-Garten
- Kosmos Gartenkalender
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage