Brand name valium. Very effective antikedogenic (how's that for a coinage?)
(cf. latest hijack)
Also much abused by recreational druggies.

DIBATAG, CLARKE'S GAZELLE

dibble
n.
5ME dibbel, prob. < dibben: see DIB6 a pointed tool used to make holes in the soil for seeds, bulbs, or young plants Also called dib4ber
vt.
3bled, 3bling

A tropical perennial plant used as ground cover in Southern US.

From Kant: ....... practical laws of reason (dictamina rationis ...

difficile
adj.
5MFr < L difficilis, difficult: reintroduced < Fr6 hard or difficult; esp., hard to deal with, please, etc.

Dear WW: don't be difficile, darling. It was in my dictionary.

Makes me think of marzipan.

Almost everything makes me think of marzipan -- I love that stuff! I'm told that a day without Mozart is like a day without marzipan.

Dear boronia: and a day without marzipan is a day without marchpane.
When I was small, my mother would make candy by pouring sufficiently
cooked syrup over a packed pan of snow, which would chill it until it
was semi-solid and wouln't stick to our fingers. I thought it got its name
from the fact it was often March when we made it.
marzipan
n.
5Ger < It marzapane, confection, earlier, the small box containing it, small dry measure, certain weight < ML matapanus, Venetian coin with figure of Christ on a throne < Ar mauthaban, seated king (< wathaba, to sit)6 a confection of ground almonds, sugar, and egg white made into a paste and variously shaped and colored

Certainly what you describe would be termed a dibble in the UK and it is the only tool for the purpose that I know of. I don't know how commercial growers do the job, but they must have a mechanised process. I suspect their bulbs don't see natural soil until we buy them and plant them and they have outgrown the compost they came in! Ain't Nature wonderful.

Hello, I just became an Addict

So if I want to give up, do I call on Betty Ford or is there a specialist clinic?

This is one addiction that is cured by continued use.

Or by stretching out in the sun...with Anu's book of course.