Vegetable / Warm season
Small Sugar Pumpkin
Long-season storage crop for larger gardens and edge-of-bed vines.
Sweet orange flesh for pies, roasting, and puree.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 100
- Germination temperature
- 70-95F
- Seed depth
- 1 inches
- Spacing
- 36 inches
- Row spacing
- 72 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 3 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 14 days after last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days after last frost
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow or transplant depending on your soil warmth, bed readiness, and frost-risk plan.
- How much space?
- 36 inches in-row spacing, 72 inches between rows, and 1 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Short-season climates need realistic frost windows and early starts. Deep weekly water during vine growth and fruit sizing. Rich, warm soil with room for vines.
Is it still worth sowing this year?
Three of the 5 regions this site covers publish a pumpkin planting window, so the answer for this variety is already dated. The covered regions are Texas, North Florida, Central Maryland, New York City and York County, PA; no other region is covered yet.
- How much frost runway Small Sugar Pumpkin has left in Texas AgriLife lists pumpkin for Texas (AgriLife Region III); the page measures that window against this variety's 100 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- The North Florida pumpkin window, measured against first frost UF/IFAS lists pumpkin for North Florida; the page measures that window against this variety's 100 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- How much frost runway Small Sugar Pumpkin has left in Central Maryland UMD Extension lists pumpkin for Central Maryland; the page measures that window against this variety's 100 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Deep weekly water during vine growth and fruit sizing.
- Soil
- Rich, warm soil with room for vines.
- Watch
- Short-season climates need realistic frost windows and early starts.
- cucurbit
- storage
- pollinators
- vining
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Cucurbit Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Either Seeds Start-method collection
- High Pollinator Value Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: CSU vegetable planting guide