Cleaning greenhouse

I just wash the glass inside & outside with warm water with a squirt of washing up liquid & vinegar in it,also use that for the pots if they need doing.

 

Bought my candle today but couldnt get the Armillatox in B&Q -will have to keep looking

 

Dobbies stock Armillatox and sulphur candles. You can also get them on line from various e-bay sites and other suppliers.

 

I`m a bit confused with all this lets sterilise the greenhouse malarky
Maybe these greenhouses been standing empty all summer and become infested with nasty bugs and soil pathogens?

The thread seems to imply you should use smoke bombs and disinfectant as some sort of preventative step?

A "let`s nuke the greenhouse just in case" kind of approach

It might be the right thing to do if it`s infested with all kinds of nasties, but it will also wipe out any beneficial bugs and soil bacteria in the process.

It`s true you will have a nice sterile start point.. but bear in mind (prior to the nuke) the good guys might have outnumbered the bad guys by 1000:1

Now the situation is whichever bugs and bacteria get the first foothold will be dominant.

Better hope it`s not the bad guys...especially with cooler autumn temperatures slowing down the activity.

 

you have a point, Hex! Maybe we're too influenced by the mags and programmes, etc, going in for the "It's the end of the season, so it's time to clean the greenhouse..." - what does everyone think?

I wouldn't mind skipping the routine, that's for sure!! :D

 

Well, I havent done mine 'properly' since we moved in 2 years ago and have had a prob with red spider mite (I think) on the peppers and chillies so thought it would be a good idea to start afresh for next year. Im not a great believer in sterilizing everything in sight indoors but am going to do it this year in the greenhouse

 

I too have had a bug problem this year.. It could have been because the weather conditions were ok for them. But now they have visited, it is definitely zap time.

 

Well, I've been cleaning mine out over the last two days - but I didn't use the armillatox or the sulphur candle - just the elbow grease :D

I've brought in some of the baskets and containers for protection, as it's likely to get colder up here a bit sooner than down south..... And others are lined up between greenhouse and fence for a bit of shelter.


And everything's clean and ready for starting the next lot of seeds!

Only things still going are the chilli peppers and the aubergine, at the back


How's your one doing, Honey Bee?

 

whats armillatox and what do you do with it :confused:

 

armillatox ... http://www.gardendirect.co.uk/product.asp?cookiecheck=yes&P_ID=4107&gclid=CJLL_LqF1ocCFSDgXgodSnvIpw
I think that probably answers that! :D

 

thanks for that :D :D

 

you're welcome!

 

Well I got tomato blight this year so i need something pretty drastic before nest year - the bad guys were already there. I have cleaned down the glass with water with Jeyes fluid and have set off a sulphur candle. Do you think that will be sufficient?

 

You can spray your soil with jeyes as well. That is if your greenhouse is on soil like mine.

Then after three weeks, turn the soil and spray it agin with jeyes. according to some research done around 20 years ago, it only kills the bad bugs!!

If using Jeyes make sure you have planty of ventilation as it can kill people and there have been reported incidences of this.