Planting a load of bulbs in grass

[Stere]

Anyone use augers ?

 

Petrol auger or maybe this?

 

VOSS.farming Ground Hand Auger Ø 7cm, for Installation of Posts, etc.

WWW.ELECTRIC-FENCE.CO.UK

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Soil auger, Ø 7 cm, for setting up posts etc.

 

Used bulb planter before but not good in certain ground stone or roots etc

[doobin]

At 7cm diameter, I'd chuck it in a decent electric drill.

[scbk]

Bulbs in grass?

 

I tried it once, didn't work.

 

Think it was a bad earth?

 

 

 

[scbk]

It probably wouldn't be recommend by the RHS or whatever, but I have planted hundreds and hundreds of daffodil bulbs in grass using a fencing pinch bar, and if the ground is soft close the hole with your heel, or if you're stuck backfill with a handful of compost/soil.

[Mick Dempsey]

Back in the early 90s me and some others planted 10s of thousands of daffodils at Groombridge place (pictured)

 

We found digging out a spit square with a sharp spade and putting a bulb in each corner worked best.

Edited November 12, 2019 by Mick Dempsey

[spudulike]

Get them in deep so they don't dry out. I didn't and not many are still flowering

[Guest Gimlet]

But not too deep or they could come up blind. Easy to overdo it with an auger I'd have thought. 

 

What about slot planting them using a narrow drainage shovel?

Edited December 2, 2019 by Gimlet

[dumper]

We used to plant with a turf cutter strip the turf poke in the bulbs relay the turf