When to plant garlic in Germany: 4 October – end of December
Garlic in Germany: plant from 4 October to the end of December; the window opens earliest in Nuremberg and closes latest in Berlin (31 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).
Planting window by climate zone
| Zone | Cities | Window |
|---|---|---|
| 210–269 frost-free days | Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Bremen, Dresden, Hanover, Duisburg, Bochum, Bielefeld, Bonn, Münster, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Augsburg, Wiesbaden, Freiburg im Breisgau, Kiel, Rostock, Magdeburg, Potsdam, Saarbrücken | 10 October – end of December |
| 150–209 frost-free days | Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Erfurt, Regensburg | 4 October – end of December |
Garlic: the window in each city
| City | Window | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Nuremberg | 4 October – end of December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Erfurt | 8 October – end of December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Regensburg | 8 October – end of December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Stuttgart | 9 October – end of December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Augsburg | 10 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Munich | 10 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Dortmund | 17 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Freiburg im Breisgau | 17 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Frankfurt | 18 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Leipzig | 18 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Rostock | 18 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Bielefeld | 19 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Dresden | 19 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Magdeburg | 19 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Saarbrücken | 19 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Berlin | 20 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Bonn | 20 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Bremen | 20 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Hamburg | 20 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Karlsruhe | 20 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Bochum | 21 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Cologne | 21 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Kiel | 21 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Mannheim | 21 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Düsseldorf | 22 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Essen | 22 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Hanover | 22 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Münster | 22 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Potsdam | 22 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Duisburg | 23 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Wiesbaden | 24 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |