Fertilizer Shelf Life: Plant-Tone Indefinite, But Why Use It?

Opened Plant-Tone bags 4–5 years old, plus wet daffodil fertilizer dried out. Still good? Plant-Tone: indefinitely shelf-stable. But for garden beds, it's unnecessary — soil microbes feed plants better.

Chemical Fertilizer Reality

• Not a plant food group. Microbes eat organic matter → feed grass/plants.
• Salts kill microbes, create dependency.

Daffodil Fertilizer Caution

Some N forms feed pathogens that rot bulbs. Need chemical analysis to know. Dry = stable, but may be wrong formula.

Better: compost, bone meal, wood ash (K) for bulbs. Feed soil, not package.