transplanting bulbs zone 7

I just moved about 30 bulbs -- mixture of glads, iris and tulip. After looking up info on how to care for them now that they are moved, I've found websites that say they should not be fertilized until the spring, websites that say give them some slow-release bulb fertilizer, give them 10-10-10, and another website that says give them a slow release nitrogen fertilizer. Anyone want to weigh in? I watered them after transplanting. Will they need watering again? Thanks!

luckysue, you are lucky...or just smart. There are many bulbs I look at in bloom and say to myself they should be moved, I must mark their positions. I say that all spring and then I don't do it. Of course now that it's fall I can't remember where they are.

I don't know for certain about the fertilizer either and when I researched I noticed a wide range of opinion, too.

So my analyses is (in a 'perfect world') to give them some gentle P & K mixed well with soil down in the hole when transplanting/planting (if your soil is deficient in those), and then some N in the springtime when the growth starts.

I give my daffs, muscari, hyacynths, etc., a liquid foliar feed for "Blooms" in early spring when they emerge and also a little later when they are in bloom (since the bulbs are already in the ground and I don't think much P & K will get to their roots if I put dry granules on the soil surface.)

My tulips are treated like annuals and I don't fertilize them when planting since everything they need is in the bulbs. I don't know much about glads or dutch iris (are those the iris you are planting?)

They say the most important factor is good healthy soil. I wonder what exactly that means?!

Just my thoughts...