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

the inactive ingredients are. But whether the medication was 6 months old or 2 years old, it still wasn’t designed for soil health, root development, or food-crop safety. Expired did not magically turn it into fertilizer.

11. What happened to the treated turnips after that

I kept growing them instead of yanking them out right away because I wanted to see whether they would recover once rain, time, and normal soil life diluted the effect. Over the next couple of weeks, the treated plants did catch up somewhat, but they