Greenly Garden

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

ZoneCitiesWindow
210–269 frost-free daysBerlin, 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, Saarbrücken10 October – end of December
150–209 frost-free daysStuttgart, Nuremberg, Erfurt, Regensburg4 October – end of December

Garlic: the window in each city

CityWindowZone
Nuremberg4 October – end of December150–209 frost-free days
Erfurt8 October – end of December150–209 frost-free days
Regensburg8 October – end of December150–209 frost-free days
Stuttgart9 October – end of December150–209 frost-free days
Augsburg10 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Munich10 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Dortmund17 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Freiburg im Breisgau17 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Frankfurt18 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Leipzig18 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Rostock18 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Bielefeld19 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Dresden19 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Magdeburg19 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Saarbrücken19 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Berlin20 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Bonn20 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Bremen20 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Hamburg20 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Karlsruhe20 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Bochum21 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Cologne21 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Kiel21 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Mannheim21 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Düsseldorf22 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Essen22 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Hanover22 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Münster22 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Potsdam22 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Duisburg23 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Wiesbaden24 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days