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Pumpkin in Newfoundland
Choose small, early types. Large pumpkins often run out of season.
demo estimate Guidance awaiting local review.
- Suitability for Newfoundland
- Warm-season — needs warm soil
- Indoor seed start
- ~4 weeks before planting out
- Transplant / sowing
- ~2 weeks after typical last frost
- Frost tolerance
- Frost tender
- Days to harvest
- 85–110 days
- Sunlight
- Full sun (6+ hrs)
- Spacing
- 1.5–2 m apart
- Wind
- Moderate — some shelter helps
- Containers
- Better in beds
- Greenhouse
- Helpful
Common problems here
- Running out of season
- Space demands
Varieties that make sense for a short season
- Small, early-maturing pie types
Harvest
When skin hardens and stem dries.
Will pumpkin work in your garden?
Get dates and placement for your community, sun and wind.
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