When to plant garlic in Ukraine: 20 September – end of December
Garlic in Ukraine: plant from 20 September to the end of December; the window opens earliest in Vinnytsia and closes latest in Odesa (44 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 | Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Rivne, Cherkasy, Kropyvnytskyi, Kryvyi Rih, Kamianske, Kremenchuk, Brovary, Nikopol, Pavlohrad, Uman, Oleksandriia, Izmail, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi | 7 October – end of December |
| 150–209 frost-free days | Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Chernihiv, Uzhhorod, Ivano-Frankivsk, Sumy, Zhytomyr, Lutsk, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Chernivtsi, Bila Tserkva, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Mukachevo, Konotop, Drohobych, Shostka, Berdychiv, Kovel, Irpin, Kalush, Boryspil, Fastiv | 20 September – 27 December |
Garlic: the window in each city
| City | Window | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Ivano-Frankivsk | 20 September – 16 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Kalush | 20 September – 10 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Shostka | 20 September – 17 November | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Sumy | 20 September – 20 November | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Ternopil | 20 September – 1 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Vinnytsia | 20 September – 2 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Zhytomyr | 20 September – 1 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Chernivtsi | 21 September – 18 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Drohobych | 21 September – 7 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Kharkiv | 21 September – 23 November | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Konotop | 21 September – 21 November | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Lutsk | 21 September – 10 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Fastiv | 22 September – 1 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Irpin | 22 September – 30 November | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Berdychiv | 23 September – 1 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Kamianets-Podilskyi | 23 September – 7 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Khmelnytskyi | 23 September – 30 November | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Mukachevo | 23 September – 11 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Poltava | 23 September – 29 November | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Chernihiv | 28 September – 25 November | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Bila Tserkva | 30 September – 4 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Boryspil | 30 September – 2 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Uzhhorod | 1 October – 27 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Pavlohrad | 7 October – 7 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Kremenchuk | 8 October – 9 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Kropyvnytskyi | 8 October – 10 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Kryvyi Rih | 8 October – 16 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Oleksandriia | 8 October – 7 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Dnipro | 9 October – 12 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Kamianske | 9 October – 8 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Brovary | 10 October – 1 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Kyiv | 10 October – 1 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Kovel | 11 October – 10 December | 150–209 frost-free days |
| Mykolaiv | 11 October – 30 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Cherkasy | 12 October – 10 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Uman | 12 October – 6 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Lviv | 13 October – 10 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Zaporizhzhia | 13 October – 20 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Rivne | 17 October – 7 December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Kherson | 18 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Nikopol | 21 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Izmail | 25 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Odesa | 26 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |
| Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi | 27 October – end of December | 210–269 frost-free days |