When to plant garlic in Santa Cruz de Tenerife: 1 October – end of December

Garlic in Santa Cruz de Tenerife: soil, season and weather

Garlic goes into the ground in Santa Cruz de Tenerife from 1 October to the end of December. No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in February, average 11.9 °C.

Garlic in Santa Cruz de Tenerife: 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife's date.

Where to buy garlic for planting in Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Planting stock goes into the ground from 1 October to the end of December; buy it before that. Within 15 km of Santa Cruz de Tenerife OpenStreetMap lists 4 garden centres, 1 plant nursery and 7 markets (collected 27 October 2026).

• Mercado de Nuestra Señora de África — market
  1 km
• Mercatenerife — market
  4 km
• Mercadillo del Agricultor — market
  10 km
• Mercadillo agrícola de La Esperanza — market
  12 km

Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Questions

When to plant garlic in Santa Cruz de Tenerife?

In Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 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.