Last of the Garlic

I had plans to mulch the flower beds tonight, but when I looked at the forecast and then went outside decided that the garlic needed to come out before it rained.  The remaining garlic was only left in the ground until the bulbils matured, which according to everything I have read is when the umbel cracks open.  Below is a mature Music umbel.

There were only a few that weren’t open yet and those were pretty close to being ready.  When I was harvesting them I cut all of the scapes off of plants and placed them upside down in paper bags and put tape around the top so they wouldn’t accidentally fall out.  I then dug up each variety separately, tagged, tied and hung them from the rafters in the blacksmith shop.  Below are Red Russian bulbils from 2 different plants.

When I was looking at the bulbils for the brown Saxon, 2 of the plants had large purple bulbils and the other 3 had small white bulbils.  I'm wondering if cloves I planted last year might not have all been brown Saxon.  It looks like accidentally I when I bought them there was another variety in the box.  I will be looking into it further but I have separated them for now and will most likely not saving the bulbs with small bulbils for seed. The one below is  one of the 2 Brown Saxon umbels that I think are actually Brown Saxon.

This is one of the ones that I do not think is a Brown Saxon.

As you can see, they are drastically different.  Also just as I finished with the garlic it started to lightly rain.  I was still able to finish mulching the flowerbed before it started to pour.