When to plant garlic in Tarija: by 14 May

In Tarija, garlic: plant by 14 May. The winter here is too mild for our late-planting rule, so we give no later limit.

Garlic in Tarija: soil, season and weather

No month averages below 0 °C at night; the coldest nights, in July, average 6.2 °C.

Planting	by 14 May
First autumn frost	13 June
Coldest nights	July, 6.2 °C
Soil back at 5 °C in spring	already in the first week of July
Harvest (card)	about 8 months after planting: January
Daylight	11:07 on 14 May
Daylight at the winter solstice	10:49

Planted on 14 May: in the first weeks water every 7 days.

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

Pests and diseases of garlic to watch for:

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

Around Tarija, Potosí is 131 days earlier and Sucre 18 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Potosí	241 km	3 January – end of June	131 days earlier
Sucre	283 km	by 1 June	18 days later
San Salvador de Jujuy	301 km	by 26 May	12 days later
Salta	369 km	by 31 May	17 days later
Calama	445 km	1 April	43 days earlier
Santa Cruz de la Sierra	447 km	1 April	43 days earlier

Planting stock goes into the ground by 14 May; buy it before that. Within 15 km of Tarija OpenStreetMap lists 15 markets (collected 28 October 2026).

In Tarija, garlic: plant by 14 May. The winter here is too mild for our late-planting rule, so we give no later limit.

Last spring frost around 27 August, first autumn frost around 13 June.