I have some multi vitamins that recently expired and I was wondering if gringing them up and spreading them into my garden is a godo thing or not? Thoughts?
I thought they were like Twinkies and never expired! **checks his centrum silver bottle**.. but no, in all honestly, I highly doubt you would have no positive nor negative effect.
A while my mom threw some expired vitamins in with one of her plants and it seemed to explode in healthy growth! I tried it another time and it seemed to have no effect. Maybe it depends on the plant or vitamin?
I used one a day men's. DOn't know what she used. Probably not a men's multi vitamin though lol.
Another thought, she put it in with a flower, not a veggie. I used it on a veggie.
I've heard of putting crushed calcium tablets in the soil under tomatoes to combat BER.
I pour old flat diet Coke in my container plants and they thrive. Maybe it's the caffeine?
God must think highly of animals - He created them before creating us !
I've tossed old vitamins in my compost. The more volatile stuff will break down pretty quickly, but the micronutrients will remain. Hope they are available for plant use. I know there's that tiny brown bottle of a vitamin liquid for plants that I think is mostly B vitamins. With a healthy compost, you would probably already have B from yeast/fungal action on the periphery.
I put some broken up calcium tabs in a few pots this year, but haven't noticed any particular response.
A tiny part of my job is destroying old medications. There is a protocol for different sorts, but stuff like supplements are such a shame to waste. I also have a connection to two clinics in poverty and tragedy stricken environments so if it can be used by someone that's where it will go.