Bolted garlic

the flowers that come on garlic, should be taken off and cooked (scapes - if you look it up ) the rest of the plant left to carry on growing til the tops start to die back and get lifted....don't know if yours will work.
A multitude of bulblets, doesn't sound quite right 

Thanks for the response, There was a seed head forming, but also a leaf growth from every bulblet. it looks like what ever made them bolt, (possibly water shortage) happened when the cloves had reached about half size.

 

If your garlic really has flowered rather than produce scapes you have a rare variety indeed! 

A short article on the subject HERE.

Sorry! But where did I say that the garlic had flowered?

Yes it had bolted but I did not no that garlic is sterile and the stem that grew from the center with  what I though was a flower stem is call a scrape, I have not seen that before. Also as I said before each bulblet, or clove each had a green growth from it.

My fault I used the wrong phraseology, sorry.

Early garlic throws up a scape without any prompting, and you can cut this off and eat it, leaving the garlic to form a head under the ground as usual. IT is normal, not as result of stress.

This scape is not a flower head, but a cluster of tiny bulbils, each of which will grow into a garlic head eventually, if planted.

It is how garlic reproduces.

Hope this helps