When to plant winter squash / pumpkin in Tallahassee
Published guidance for the region shown below. Dates retain the source's precision and are not a weather forecast or a guarantee for an individual garden.
Winter squash / Pumpkin: Planting period: February–April; Planting period: August–September
Regional guidance: North of State Road 40. Not a forecast for an individual garden.
Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide · UF/IFAS Extension · SP 103; revised June 2025; web version 2.8.0
Table 1, North Florida column, Squash, winter row · Source checked 2026-09-13
Table 1 gives outdoor planting periods. It does not assign these dates separately to direct sowing and transplanting. Follow the publication’s crop-specific establishment guidance and frost precautions.
This source does not provide a harvest calendar for this crop. We have not calculated one from planting dates.
How to use this guidance
Where does the winter squash / pumpkin guidance for Tallahassee come from?
The published recommendations are from UF/IFAS Extension (North Florida). Check the geographic scope and conditions beside each citation.
Are these exact dates for my garden?
No. These are regional recommendations at the precision used by the source. Weather, elevation, cultivar and growing conditions still matter. A missing window means we have not verified a source, not that growing is impossible.
Which planting and harvest periods are published?
Planting period: February–April. UF/IFAS Extension; North Florida. Planting period: August–September. UF/IFAS Extension; North Florida.