Slightly odd garlic

I pulled my garlic up two or three weeks back and it's a pretty good crop, but there's quite a few bulbs that are slightly odd. Where most bulbs have a fairly smooth layer of large cloves beneath the skin, these bulbs have a layer of large cloves but with another layer of small cloves around the outside of them. Because of this, the skin has tended to break or split around these smaller cloves. Where they've done this, I think I'm probably best to pot them up into chopped garlic or lazy garlic, just in case they don't store too well. But does anybody know what causes this? They're Solent Wight, planted last autumn, and other than the odd cloves they seem pretty healthy.

Aren't the small cloves simply new bulbs?

I don't know, they just look like ordinary cloves. The problem is that because there's a row of small cloves on the outside of the bigger cloves, but under the same outside skin, they're causing that skin to split and hence the bulb as a whole isn't covered by a complete skin. I've never seen that happen before, so I just wondered what would cause it.

One of mine was like this - a good size but just as u say. I'm going to use it first in case it doesn't store. Dunno what caused it - same treatment as all the others I think.

Have the 'odd' bulbs had any special treatment, for exampe extra feed or more water, or less water. Im just trying to work it out, im a bit confused to what has happend

No, no special treatment. All the bulbs are mixed in together, odd and normal, and all had exactly the same treatment.

Viettaclark - no, sadly the rest of the bulb isn't completely enclosed because it's the same skin trying to cover the whole lot. It's actually quite a high percentage of the crop that are like this, so just using them first isn't going to save me if they don't store well. I think I'm just going to have to turn them into chopped or lazy garlic.