Vegetables · Temperate
Garlic
Amaryllidaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 15 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–9b
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 18 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- sandyAlso okay:loamyraised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- very free-drainingAlso okay:normal
Seed & start
Pre-culture recommended
Start indoors / cold frame first, transplant into the raised bed later.
Stachi's tip
Plant garlic in October (or February in mild climates), harvest the following July. It occupies the bed for a full year — but the homegrown bulbs really keep. Companion-planting star: repels pests near carrots, strawberries, tomatoes.
Sowing
No sowing weeks recorded.
Transplanting
Harvest
Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- Kreuter, Bio-Garten
- Kosmos Gartenkalender
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage
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Garlic from the raised bed: how to tell it's truly ready — and how to store it for a year
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Companion planting for beginners — who likes whom in the raised bed
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