garlic bolting shall I pull?

[4390evans]

I planted my garlic a week before good Friday this year, the leaves has started to die back and one of them has got a seed pod on the top as if it has bolted. I pulled one up that I had stomped on by mistake and its fully formed just needs to fatten out....

What do you guys think?

[Penellype]

When I grew garlic (which was never a huge success as the cloves were always a bit small) I always found there was a flower stem in the middle and the cloves formed around it. Others may be better at garlic than me and have a different experience - I got rid of it because it tended to drop mini cloves from the flower heads all over the garden which then grew in all the wrong places.

[Greenleaves]

No Garlic expert but if it is a hard neck variety it is normal, just break it off. Sure someone will correct me if I am wrong

[Filbert]

The little flower head is known as a scape and can be stir fried if you cut/break it off. It will draw energy from the plant and make for a smaller bulb if left so best to remove.