Guess it depends what you mean by worse and better. A boule with an open crumb is nice but that's one loaf out of how many since March? If 8 or 9 were rough and then one came out great, that could just be luck or a good bag of flour. I scoop sometimes too but I still check with a scale every few bakes because my scoop can swing 20 percent depending on how packed the flour is. Feels like going by feel works until it doesn't, and then you have no idea what changed.

Man, I did the exact same thing two winters ago here in zone 5b! Planted way too early and got a whole bed of garlic grass while my neighbor's bulbs came in fat and happy. Now I wait until the ground is good and frozen, like late November, and just mulch the heck out of it.

Heard plant swaps are the move for rehoming big batches like that.