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  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk August 22, 2012 at 6:52pm

  Ive done this on loads of commerial sites. A pinch bar to make the holes and a slurried compost mix poured in via a bog standard watering can, minus the rose obviously
  after the bulb is planted and had very good flowers year after year. Mind you, be warned, your arms and neck will be feeling it at the end of the day :-)
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  Gary RK August 22, 2012 at 7:14pm

  We had the same need last year and I was given some great advice by others on here..We ended up using a 6ft chisel point wrecking bar to create the planting holes. Much easier then spending hours on knees. Bulbs planted and back filled with soil.
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  Simon Smith August 22, 2012 at 10:09pm

  Turf stripping doesn;t work as it will never cut deep enough. 2'' is the most you'll get with even quite a large cutter.

  I Ended up using a long handle bulb planter to do 400 daffs last year because they were quite large bulbs the demolition bar method didn;t work.

  Took a long time.
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  Rosalind Rosewarne August 23, 2012 at 11:35am

  The turf stripping was simply to allow the turf to stay in tact and then plant, normally under it before relaying it. But am thinking the long handled bulb planter is probably the way to go

  Simon Smith said:

  Turf stripping doesn;t work as it will never cut deep enough. 2'' is the most you'll get with even quite a large cutter.

  I Ended up using a long handle bulb planter to do 400 daffs last year because they were quite large bulbs the demolition bar method didn;t work.

  Took a long time.
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  Rosalind Rosewarne August 23, 2012 at 11:35am

  Not sure I am understanding how the chisel point/demolition bar is helpful in a lawn situation, I'm thinking  the method is to leaver a hole, plant bulb and back fill with soil?

  If so then doesn't it leave 'pock marks' of soil all over the lawn?
  
  Gary RK said:

  We had the same need last year and I was given some great advice by others on here..We ended up using a 6ft chisel point wrecking bar to create the planting holes. Much easier then spending hours on knees. Bulbs planted and back filled with soil.
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  Rosalind Rosewarne August 23, 2012 at 11:36am

  Umm, what's a pinch bar :)
  
  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk said:

  Ive done this on loads of commerial sites. A pinch bar to make the holes and a slurried compost mix poured in via a bog standard watering can, minus the rose obviously
  after the bulb is planted and had very good flowers year after year. Mind you, be warned, your arms and neck will be feeling it at the end of the day :-)
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  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk August 23, 2012 at 12:40pm

  same as Gary's wrecking bar. Your right though, you will be left with pock marks on the lawn but they are easily dealt with a sprinkling of grass seed. 500 bulbs will be a hard shift on your knees with hand bulb planter though, and your wrist come to think about it.
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  Rosalind Rosewarne August 23, 2012 at 2:08pm

  I have a long handled version with a foot plate (you tread on the foot plate and it acts like a spade) so not so hard, just time consuming
  
  Brian www.mibservices.co.uk said:

  same as Gary's wrecking bar. Your right though, you will be left with pock marks on the lawn but they are easily dealt with a sprinkling of grass seed. 500 bulbs will be a hard shift on your knees with hand bulb planter though, and your wrist come to think about it.
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  Gary RK August 23, 2012 at 2:43pm

  Would strongly recommend you water the area well the previous day to soften the soil ( unless you're lucky enough to have uncompacted soil under the turf :-)
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  Simon Smith August 23, 2012 at 7:17pm

  Take some spare bolts cable ties etc as the planter will almost certainly begin to fall apart after a few hundred unless its lovely ground.

  I ended up welding a plate onto mine as it started to bend under my 16 stone, was planting beside an old church wall and the ground was full of glass making it much harder.