Woo-hoo! My daffodil bulbs arrived the other day. I think the UPS guy probably sprained his back bringing them up to the door. The box weighed 50 pounds! That’s a LOT of daffodil bulbs (200, to be exact). Which means, I’d better get planting, because this is going to take awhile.

I usually wait until October 11. That’s my birthday, and I’ve developed a little tradition of taking it off work and spending the day planting bulbs.

The daffodil bulbs I buy are a collection called “The Works” and the bulbs themselves are really large. At first, I tried to use the little attachment for my cordless drill, but the holes weren’t big enough. So I bought one of those step-on bulb diggers. That worked great in soft soil, but not so well in my clay soil (okay, I broke it on bulb #17).

Finally, I got out the spade that belonged to my mother before she died, and it worked beautifully. So now, I make my bulbs happy and get to have another connection to my mom, too.

Are you a bulb planter? (Did you see Connie’s video on planting bulbs?) What kinds do you plant and how do you like to plant them? What’s the payoff for you to invest time planting them in the fall?

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