When to plant garlic in Melilla: 1 October – end of December

Garlic in Melilla: soil, season and weather

Garlic goes into the ground in Melilla from 1 October to the end of December. No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 8.4 °C.

Garlic in Melilla: care after planting

Planted on 1 October: in the first weeks water every 7 days.

Feeding, by the card’s schedule from that day:

• 1 October — feed: nitrogen
• 29 October — feed: nitrogen

Pests and diseases of garlic to watch for:

• Onion fly
• Bacterial soft rot
• Downy Mildew
• Rust
• White mould (Sclerotinia)

Dates count from the first planting day of the window above; a later planting moves them by as many days.

Garlic in nearby cities

5 of the nearest cities share Melilla's date.

Where to buy garlic for planting in Melilla

Planting stock goes into the ground from 1 October to the end of December; buy it before that. Within 15 km of Melilla OpenStreetMap lists 11 markets (collected 28 October 2026).

• Souq el morakab — market
  12 km
• Mercado Central — market
  Calle García Cabrelles 16 · Mon · 2 km · melilla.es
• Souk Almarkaz سوق المركز — market
  3 km
• Mercado de Beni Enzar سوق بني انصار — market
  3 km

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Questions

When to plant garlic in Melilla?

In Melilla, garlic: plant from 1 October to the end of December. In Spain garlic is planted from October in every region (Spain’s agriculture ministry, MAPA, Hojas Divulgadoras 1/84); we give October to December.