Why I tried it in the first place
I had a nearly empty bottle of expired stool softener tablets in the bathroom cabinet that was past the printed date by a little over 2 years. Like a lot of folks, I hate wasting things, and I’d heard the kind of garden advice that floats around where people say, “Bury this near your plants and they’ll thrive.” Usually, those claims involve calcium, moisture retention, or “slow feeding” the roots.
My turnips seemed like a simple test crop because I had two
