Bulbs: Easiest tool to use for planting lots of bulbs, 0 by Loon

Loon wrote:
After digging up my daffodil bulbs that had multipled like crazy, I decided I wanted to replant them all along the ditch next to the road. I put all the bulbs on a screen on top of some wood pallets in a dark corner of the pole barn to dry out. After they were dry, I picked them all up and went through them all removing dead foliage and tossing a few that had gone bad. It turns out I had two bushels of bulbs!!

I knew it would be very labor intensive to try to plant that many hundreds of bulbs by hand so I searched out a tool that would make the job easier. I found that tool in the garden auger. I was told by an electrician friend that a corded drill has more power than a cordless drill. I put a small generator in my RTV and plugged in an extension cord that I had plugged my corded drill into. I attached the garden auger and fired up the generator. It was very powerful and made short work of drilling hundreds of holes to put the bulbs into. I had a helper to plant and we covered all the bulbs up with Michigan peat since that's what I had a pallet of leftover from summer. The auger I bought was heavy duty steel and drilled a great deep hole for the bulbs. It still took a long time to get them all planted. I got hubby to help drill some of the holes too.

I can't wait till next spring to see how it will look. They were all King Alfred daffodills. We have so many deer that I stick to daffs since they're poisonous and the rabbits and deer won't eat them.

I'll post a picture of the auger so you can see. Just thought I'd share this tip for anyone considering planting about a million bulbs. :)