What advice do you have, based on your experience, growing garlic?

I love garlic and even though it is cheap enough to buy at the store, I would like to grow some. Please tell me if you had a good crop, when did you plant, what part of the country do you live in, did you do it in a pot? Just give me all of the the details.What advice do you have, based on your experience, growing garlic?
Garlic is a cinch to grow. Plant it in early Spring,4x deeper than the length of the clove itself, put a little bone meal in the hole, backfill, water. Garlic is very compatible w/ roses.It will send up green leaves, then bloom little white flowers, and then the leaves will start turning yellow %26amp; start to dry up. That is the time to harvest your garlic.(usually in the Fall). Hope this helps. I live in Texas,What advice do you have, based on your experience, growing garlic?
grow them in pots, or coffee cans that have both tops and bottoms cut out, and then buried in the ground.