GreenlyWhen to plant garlic in Australia: 1 March – end of June
Garlic in Australia: plant from 1 March to the end of June; the window opens earliest in Sydney and closes latest in Melbourne (12 cities).
From a month before the first autumn frost, so the roots grow before winter, to the late-planting limit on each crop’s page (about two weeks before the ground freezes, by ten years of weather). For garlic here we follow a national source (NSW DPI, Primefact 259).
Planting window by climate zone
| Zone | Cities | Window |
|---|---|---|
| 270 frost-free days or more | Melbourne, Ballarat, Bendigo, Launceston, Orange, Albury, Dubbo, Alice Springs, Devonport | 1 March – end of June |
| 210–269 frost-free days | Canberra | 1 March – end of June |
| Frost without a regular season | Geelong | — |
| No frost in ten years | Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Gold Coast, Darwin, Townsville, Newcastle, Wollongong, Cairns, Toowoomba, Mildura, Rockhampton, Bunbury, Mount Gambier | 1 March – end of June |
Garlic: the window in each city
| City | Window | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Albury | 1 March – end of June | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Canberra | 1 March – end of June | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Newcastle | 1 March – 30 April | No frost in ten years |
| Orange | 1 March – end of June | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Sydney | 1 March – 30 April | No frost in ten years |
| Wollongong | 1 March – 30 April | No frost in ten years |
| Adelaide | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Brisbane | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Bunbury | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Cairns | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Darwin | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Geelong | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | Frost without a regular season |
| Gold Coast | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Hobart | 1 April – end of June | No frost in ten years |
| Mildura | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Mount Gambier | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Perth | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Rockhampton | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Toowoomba | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Townsville | There is no autumn frost here and the winter is too warm for our late-planting rule, so we give no planting window; the calendar’s default autumn date is 1 April. | No frost in ten years |
| Alice Springs | by 7 May | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Launceston | 9 May – end of June | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Ballarat | 20 May – end of June | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Bendigo | 20 May – end of June | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Dubbo | by 20 May | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Melbourne | 26 May – end of June | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Devonport | 27 May – end of June | 270 frost-free days or more |
