While reworking an old garden bed, I dug up several daff bulbs and want to transplant them into another garden bed.
What practice do you follow when transplanting?
I've got them lying in a tray on my porch (out of the sun) while I figure out the best spot to replant them.

Plant them the same as you would plant new bulbs.
I put bonemeal in the hole where I plant bulbs.

Thanks Caroline. I was a bit hesitant to put bone meal in the hole because of critters digging up the holes. Have you not had an issue with that happening?

I also put cayenne or chili powder in the hole.
The smell is supposed to stop rodents from foraging among the bulbs.
The rodents tend to like tulip bulbs,but they do dig the daffodils and scatter them.
Tamp the soil and water it, also discourages the rodent raiders.

Caroline, do you ever use bone meal for other plants and how do you apply it? How much bone meal do you usually add to the bulb hole location? Do you mix it in with soil or sprinkle in bottom of hole before you set the bulbs down? What other plants do you use bone meal around? Julia, I did the same thing yesterday and have got to plant them over again, give them away or discard them. I have been planting a lot of dayliliies and I probably should have used bone meal in those holes too late now!..Hope I planted them all correctly! I have 2 more pots to plant and I'll be finished(I hope!)

I just sprinkle about a quarter a cup in each hole.
I don't always use it for perennials,but as it is a slow source of phosphate ----it probably wouldn't hurt to use it.

I don't think squirrels are at all interested in daffs, hence their enormous popularity, but the newly disturbed soil may appeal to them for digging. If you stick a few plastic forks in with them, with the tines sticking up, squirrels won't dig them up. When the ground them is firm again, you can pull the forks out.

purpleinopp said:I don't think squirrels are at all interested in daffs, hence their enormous popularity, but the newly disturbed soil may appeal to them for digging. If you stick a few plastic forks in with them, with the tines sticking up, squirrels won't dig them up. When the ground them is firm again, you can pull the forks out.

Now that is an interesting method. I will try it. I couldn't replant anything yet so hopefully these bulbs are not a loss.

Yes, one year I used wood skewers to keep the squirrels from the tulip bulbs.