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

or compost ingredient. They were just sitting there breaking down unevenly.

7. What I saw at the full 3-week mark

At 21 days, the result was pretty plain: nothing beneficial happened, and a few mildly negative things did. The untreated turnips were slightly larger above ground and a little more even overall. On average, the untreated plants had leaf spans about 1/2 to 3/4 inch wider than the treated plants when I measured across the broadest leaves.

When I gently checked root development on one plant from each