This article has some good advice even though the video features a grower from down under, so don’t listen to the advice for when to plant except that the recommendation to plant after the first frost in our fall is a sound one, I think.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/09/29/growing-garlic.aspx?utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20170929Z1_UCM&et_cid=DM159918&et_rid=68113205