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

Garlic in Motril: soil, season and weather

Garlic goes into the ground in Motril from 1 October to the end of December. No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in January, average 9.2 °C.

Garlic in Motril: 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

6 of the nearest cities share Motril's date.

Where to buy garlic for planting in Motril

Planting stock goes into the ground from 1 October to the end of December; buy it before that. Within 15 km of Motril OpenStreetMap lists 4 garden centres, 19 farm-supply shops, 1 plant nursery, 5 markets and 6 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

• Viveros Algaidas — garden centre
  Pago el Deire, 18600 Motril · 3 km
• C.D.O. VÍía Garnata (Aprosmo) — garden centre
  Carretera de Motril a N-340 (Castell de Ferro) · 5 km
• Mercado Municipal — market
  Avenida San Agustín 18 · Mon–Fri 09:00–15:00 · 1 km
• Mercado municipal de Carchuna — market
  Calle Núñez de Balboa, 18730 Carchuna · sunrise–sunset · 9 km

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Questions

When to plant garlic in Motril?

In Motril, 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.