Thanks, Ken! After I posted my question I remembered you were off on your trip for Alaska -- not like it was an urgent matter, at any rate. Hope you had a great time and are totally sick of eating fish by now! I recently read somewhere else about the larger cloves making larger bulbs, so I need to pay more attention to that, and otherwise it seems to be a bit of a crapshoot as to when to dig them up... at any rate, I guess I'd rather have slightly smaller bulbs that look good, so will keep experimenting with the digging time.