The only spring bulbs worth growing in a veggie patch are overwinter onions!

Thanks Southportsm - perhaps I will grow some onions and some garlic in the bed instead. Am also thinking of trying to continue growing some salad leaves throughout the winter in part of the bed using a cold frame so the bed won't be totally empty.

Don't agree!!!!! A narrow row of daffs in front of the wall will look lovely. Leave them there and reduce the length of your veg rows by about a foot (ie only one vegetable).
Be warned, though. That is more or less how we treated our original vegetable plot. Over the years we planted more and more bulbs (and other stuff) until the vegetables disappeared :-)))). Much more satisfactory. We now grow our vegetables in neighbours gardens.

I agree, leave your daffs in near the wall, they will then settle and gradually increase. Might even copy the idea.

You used to be able to buy bulb baskets - you plant the bulbs in them and then bury them in the bed. After flowering you lift the whole basket and let the foliage die down elsewhere or even bury somewhere else until next season. Keep meaning to look out for some.

Good idea, Steragram. We use perforated pond baskets for this.

I like the sound of using bulb or pond baskets as I don't really enjoy the dying down process of daffs or tulips and that way I can move them out of site in the baskets. Many thanks for all your help and suggestions.