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
Garlic: the window in each city
| City | Window | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Erzurum | 16 September – 20 November | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Van | 29 September – 21 November | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Ankara | 4 October – end of December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Eskişehir | 5 October – end of December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Konya | 10 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Kayseri | 11 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Diyarbakır | 26 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Bursa | 6 November – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Izmir | 7 November – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Trabzon | 13 November – end of December | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Adana | by 15 November | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Samsun | 16 November – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Gaziantep | 24 November – end of December | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Istanbul | 26 November – end of December | 270 frost-free days or more |
| Antalya | by 29 November | 270 frost-free days or more |