Mulch and daffodil bulbs?
I'm planting some daffodil bulbs for the first time and I want to use brown mulch around them. I bought fertilizer soil to mix in with the dirt. I'm not sure whether or not to put the mulch over top of the soil where I planted the bulbs or if that would mess with the growth of them. Should I put on the mulch before or after the daffodils sprout?
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Plant your bulbs at the recommended depth. Planting time is an excellent time to add some bulb fertilizer or bulb booster. You can get it in almost any garden center. It has the nutrients specific to a bulbs needs. Save the fertilizer soil for another use.
And go ahead and mulch them when you're done planting. It will not prevent them from coming up in the spring in any way shape or form. We get to laughing about aliens growing up from the ground in the spring; it's the spring bulbs creating these lumps in the beds and makes things look a little strange. A nice even flower bed and all of a sudden it's got these weird lumps in it.......... <G>
I don't think the mulch will harm the daffodil bulbs. Your main concern is planting them at the correct depth in the soil. The general rule of thumb is to plant them twice as deep as the size of the bulb. If the bulb is one inch in size then plant it two inches deep and so forth.
As for the mulch I would wait untill spring to put the mulch on. Why waiste it on winter.