How any bulbs are you planting? And how hard is the soil? A narrow trowel works absolutely fine unless you are planting hundreds. If planting in groups you can remove a spade's width of soil, set out several bulbs at once and just plonk the earth back on top. The noise of a drill would spoil the process for me. I wouldn't consider it worth buying a drill just for bulb planting. Seems like a sledge hammer to crack a nut.

Thank you but I have always used the drill with the auger, just need to know how powerful it had to be. I am planting at least 300, possibly more depending on what’s left when the deep sales start. I have sandy soil with lots of roots to work around. Think woodland edge.

BSG -

Corded drill. What's that. LOL. I have literally thousands in power tools, and you know what, alot of my corded sit collecting dust as the cordless counterpart has replaced them. Granted certain items you just can't replace with corded......

For sandy soil, that is easier to turnover, I would think any corded drill on the market should be fine....hell, I might be erring you to just buy one at Harbor Freight with their typical 20% coupon, and just buy ~anuther~ one if it craps out...

Great idea, thanks!

I use a simple DeWalt corded drill for bulbs. I don't think you need to go crazy on power, snagging a tree root can still rip the drill out of your hand with a regular drill. Those heavy duty ones might be a little dangerous.