Greenly Garden

When to plant garlic in Poland: 2 October – end of December

Garlic in Poland: plant from 2 October to the end of December; the window opens earliest in Kraków and closes latest in Wrocław (20 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 daysWarsaw, Gdańsk, Katowice, Gdynia, Rzeszów, Opole, Zielona Góra14 October – end of December
150–209 frost-free daysKraków, Wrocław, Poznań, Łódź, Szczecin, Bydgoszcz, Lublin, Białystok, Częstochowa, Toruń, Kielce, Olsztyn, Radom2 October – end of December

Garlic: the window in each city

CityWindowZone
Białystok2 October – 6 December150–209 frost-free days
Kraków2 October – 28 December150–209 frost-free days
Kielce5 October – 13 December150–209 frost-free days
Łódź5 October – 22 December150–209 frost-free days
Częstochowa11 October – 19 December150–209 frost-free days
Lublin11 October – 15 December150–209 frost-free days
Wrocław12 October – end of December150–209 frost-free days
Bydgoszcz13 October – end of December150–209 frost-free days
Toruń13 October – end of December150–209 frost-free days
Zielona Góra14 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Radom16 October – 24 December150–209 frost-free days
Rzeszów16 October – 20 December210–269 frost-free days
Katowice17 October – 22 December210–269 frost-free days
Olsztyn17 October – 16 December150–209 frost-free days
Poznań17 October – end of December150–209 frost-free days
Szczecin18 October – end of December150–209 frost-free days
Warsaw18 October – 27 December210–269 frost-free days
Opole19 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Gdańsk20 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Gdynia20 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days