Every late summer, I get a little stubborn about squeezing one more crop out of the garden. Here in my small Midwestern town, August is when I’m tucking in fall vegetables while everybody else is talking about back-to-school schedules and football. This year, while planting a row of late-season turnip transplants, I did something I know a lot of gardeners get curious about: I experimented with a handful of crushed expired stool softener tablets mixed into the soil around the plants. Three weeks later, I had a very clear answer
I buried a handful of crushed expired stool softener tablets in the soil around my August late-season turnip transplants. 3 weeks later, this is what happened
