Greenly Garden

When to plant garlic in Turkey: 16 September – end of December

Garlic in Turkey: plant from 16 September to the end of December; the window opens earliest in Erzurum and closes latest in Istanbul (13 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
270 frost-free days or moreIstanbul, Antalya, Adana, Gaziantep, Trabzon13 November – end of December
210–269 frost-free daysIzmir, Bursa, Konya, Kayseri, Diyarbakır, Samsun10 October – end of December
150–209 frost-free daysAnkara, Eskişehir, Erzurum, Van16 September – end of December

Garlic: the window in each city

CityWindowZone
Erzurum16 September – 20 November150–209 frost-free days
Van29 September – 21 November150–209 frost-free days
Ankara4 October – end of December150–209 frost-free days
Eskişehir5 October – end of December150–209 frost-free days
Konya10 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Kayseri11 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Diyarbakır26 October – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Bursa6 November – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Izmir7 November – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Trabzon13 November – end of December270 frost-free days or more
Adanaby 15 November270 frost-free days or more
Samsun16 November – end of December210–269 frost-free days
Gaziantep24 November – end of December270 frost-free days or more
Istanbul26 November – end of December270 frost-free days or more
Antalyaby 29 November270 frost-free days or more