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31 Aug 18, Sue (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

You could give it a try but I doubt there will be time for the bulbs to develop as all the energy will go into leaf development. In Daylesford we plant in April/May and harvest around December. They also seem to like moist, cool weather and hopefully we are running out of that. Last year though, the cockies took all the tops off mine around this time so they had to grow new leaves and we still had good bulb development so you could give it a try. Let us know how you go.

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30 Aug 18, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

It does suggest to plant April May - have a think about it.

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25 Aug 18, Edward Shayne Solomon (South Africa - Dry summer sub-tropical climate)

When do i plant garlic.Iam in St Helena Bay Western Cape

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13 Aug 18, Michael (Australia - temperate climate)

Over the last couple of years I have had really poor garlic crops which I have put down to fusarium rot. I have since read that it is endemic to Australian garlic (shop purchased).Same this year , so I bought some Mexican or Argentinian stock, planted it in April and it grew beautifully, until most of it started to sprout shoots up the middle from the developing cloves. I left it until the middle of July then pulled it all up.to use as soft fresh garlic. Surprisingly about 10% of the plants were fully mature and dried well, also had a very good root system.Too much N2 climate change or just a warm Perth Autumn. My Australian garlic (March) is still struggling away Any other ideas

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14 Aug 18, Mike L (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Perth's climate is the opposite to East Coast - wet winter and dry summer. It says here plant April to June. It takes about 6 mths for garlic to grow. Maybe better to plant May or June - don't over fertilise it. It is variable weather - not climate change. Climate is the weather of 30 years.

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20 Jul 18, Prakash (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

Is it late to plant garlic in July in nz subtropical

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13 Jul 18, Julie hall (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Where iam at the moment it get verry cold and forsty in the morning I know it.s may be a bit late to plant garlic but will it still be ok to plant it now or preferably when the frost almost over towards modd August i think ingoulburn Unless the cloves are not effected by the frost

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16 Jul 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

For cool/mountain it say plant Apr/May so you are too late. If you plant now the crop may fail. You could try - wouldn't plant too many though.

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16 Jul 18, Ray S (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

You could certainly try planting now, the sooner the better because garlic needs to go through the cold to get a decent size to it. The plants are totally unaffected by frosts down to at least -12°C which is what we get here in July. Just for your information, I usually plant garlic late March for a November harvest. In Goulburn you could probably wait until April/May. Good luck with it.

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17 Jul 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

A saying - plant the shortest day of the year and harvest the longest day. 21st June - 21st Dec.

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