If you are shopping for seed garlic and are flabbergasted by the prices, you can go cheaper but without the names. Good fresh plump grocery store bulbs will yield cloves that will grow even here in Minnesota. Most of them will be some sort of California White soft necks, but the Cub on Nicollet just north of the Crosstown currently has big bulbs of a type of hardneck. They offer this different variety every year but normally have switched back to the normal soft necks by this late in the summer.

Both of those grew for me this year from an October planting but I can't say much beyond the fact that they produced usable bulbs. Not the best outcome but they did make garlic to cook with and at a whole lot lower price than regular seed stock.

There are also organic bulbs offered at pretty much any full sized supermarket, but they tend to be dinks and often seem to be shriveling. Also don't overlook the various farmers' markets that seem to be popping up all over right about now. It may take a bit of shopping to find the right market, but local garlic will be much more likely to be pre-adapted to local climate as well as probably cheaper than what is available on the internet from both garlic specialists and more generalized nurseries.

If nothing else these supermarket types can be kept in the back of one's mind should an emergency spring replant become necessary. As with all other garlic always plant the largest cloves and cook with the smallest ones.