Rodent deterrent??

What do you all use to protect your bulbs like tulips from getting dug up and damaged? I've heard of the wire over bulb method but don't want to do that. I feel like it would be too hard to dig in the big bed to plant or move other plants if I cover it all up in wire. I've also heard of some kind of liquid you soak them in or dust them with but forgot to do that before I planted 200 tulips. I was wondering if broadcasting Milorganite over the bed would deter critters?

What is your method?

Many animals are attracted to newly dug soil. You can prevent them from being dug up by chipmunks, squirrels etc. by covering the newly dug soil with black mesh fencing laid on the soil held down by rocks for 2 weeks or so. Deer won't dig up the bulbs but in the spring time they will go eagerly after tulip foliage and flowers. Daffodils are seldom bottered by deer or digging animals so these you don't have to do anything. Tulips and hyacinths I grow near to my house and spray them with Liquid Fence when the foliage emerges in spring time. Because they are right next to the house the deer don't go after them as much as other areas of my garden. I pretty much have given up growing tulips outside in large numbers. Instead I force them in pots in my unheated garage and enjoy them inside in spring time.

I went on a garden tour and the lady had the most amazing hostas untouched by deer and I asked her what she uses and she said Milorganite so they do deter deer from eating foliage so may be it would work for the tulips as well. After looking into the contents of Milorganite I decided I didn't want to take the risk spreading it around since I have well water.

Sue

An elderly woman in CO told me once that deer will not walk through fencing on the ground to get to tulips because it's too tricky to walk through. I would think if the fencing was a wider spaced one, you could plant in between. If the bed were well dug to start, with mulch over it, the whole thing wouldn't have to be redug, only the places where new plants were to go in.

My two cents or less. Underground critters are an issue for me, so I won't plant anything they like to eat. No deer here, but lots in CO