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

I’m not a laboratory, but I do try to be fair in my little backyard experiments. I had 12 turnip transplants of similar size in one row. Six were treated with the crushed tablets, and six were left alone as the comparison group. Plant spacing was about 5 inches apart, with 12 inches between rows.

I watered the entire row evenly, aiming for about 1 inch of water per week total from rain and irrigation. I did not add any extra fertilizer, compost tea, Epsom salt, or other “