Volunteer garlic

I grew garlic 24/25. It wasn't very successful. I think I didn't water enough in the spring. Then realized my mistake and probably watered to much. What I did get was very small, and a lot of the foliage had died back, so I think I missed a bunch.  
A little late, but still in the acceptable window for  my zone I was planting garlic today. I have a bunch of volunteers. I decided to remove them. I doubt they would grow all bunched together the way they were. Being a waist not want not kind of person I replanted them. I separated them, and planted around my raised beds. I don't know if they will survive. If they survive I'm not sure they will produce bulbs. I figured I have nothing to loose. If they survive, it's a win no matter what. Even if they don't make a decent bulb, we can eat the greens, and they are a great pest control
Time will tell.

I left some garlic unharvested two years ago. Since each bulb contains 7-9 cloves for this variety, by this year, dozens of skinny plantlets came up in each clump. I transplanted some to a bed for spring greens and it only took 5 clumps to cover 100 sq ft. It's been three weeks and they just looked the same. Maybe they are regrowing some roots and will then go dormant for the winter. I also potted one big clump to bring indoors so I can harvest fresh leaves throughout the winter.

Can't recall which post I added to along the same lines?....   We planted lots of garlic varieties when first moved onto our property ~30 years ago.  Gave up within a few years due to disease.  One patch kept coming back,....so about 25 years after giving up, wife did the same.  She subdivided the very small bulbs and planted in the fall.  We got a decent harvest from that with very little disease!  I was surpised at the good size of the bulbs after so many years of crowding and compaction.  From this past year's harvest, she's done the same now again.  We will see the turn-out next summer,

I just planted a clove in a pot, late yes, but we still haven't had a freeze yet this year, so I think it will somehow be okay.

Riona Abhainn wrote:I just planted a clove in a pot, late yes, but we still haven't had a freeze yet this year, so I think it will somehow be okay.

I've planted garlic after the ground has frozen and it will survive ok.  Might not come up till spring but then again it might.  No such thing as too late unless it's July

Riona Abhainn wrote:I just planted a clove in a pot, late yes, but we still haven't had a freeze yet this year, so I think it will somehow be okay.

Agreed, and with that being western Oregon, even a greater chance.  When we lived in Corvallis, it was noted that the large beet seed industry near there was due to the ability of beets to withstand the winter temperatures, which then helped to induce flowering of the beets in the spring.  After the rains recede near summer, the drier air that arrives is good for seed harvest on those plants.