@OldGardener, I don't think this photo is the early red italian. Every picture I've seen of it, including the one from filaree farm, does not have cloves around the stem. I've gotten garlic from filaree that had the cloves around the stem but I can't for the life of me remember which one it was.
Doing a google images search for 'early red italian garlic' doesn't show any with the cloves around the stem.