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I've been cleaning containers with Jeyes fluid today but I am a bit concerned about its toxicity. Obviously when you're brushing and splashing the stuff about it sometimes gets where it's not supposed to, including garden soil.

Do any members have experience of Citrox or the other alternative disinfectants and how effective they are.

Hi

Like you I used to use Jeyes - but also came to feel it is pretty toxic stuff with a lingering small. I have also used Citrox - but now just go for thorough cleaning - maybe with a bit of household disinfectant. I don't know how effective good plain washing is - but haven't noticed any difference.

I'll be very interested in other replies.

Unless it is being used for what the manufacturers recomend ..it should not be used for anything apart from that..
Sadly working within health and safety guidleines thats a recomendation..

I still spray the greenhouse glass with Jeyes, it kills all the green stuff in the joints and overlaps then I hose it away. Don't know if any of the other products do it so well.

My friend scrubs her hen and duck houses out with it every now and then ...she hasnt had any probs with her animals .

I really don't think its necessary to clean pots and so on with Jeyes fluid. In the kitchen ordinary washing up liquid is good enough for plates and cutlery and we eat off them so I just use wupl for cleaning garden stuff. If you think your pots are so heavily contaminated it might be safer to dispose of them.
I do use JF on the chicken house and have never had any problems. I try do it early in the day and leave the house wide open to air and dry out during the rest of the day.

John

thetangoman wrote:Unless it is being used for what the manufacturers recomend ..it should not be used for anything apart from that..
Sadly working within health and safety guidleines thats a recomendation..

It is recommended for disinfecting plant pots and greenhouses and I am using it according to the manufacturers recommendations.

My main reason for using it is for the containers that have grown potatoes and tomatoes as I have no wish for any potential disease transfer. However, as John says, a good wash with soapy water is probably as effective. My neighbour can have what's left in the can for her hen houses.

Hope you wear gloves and other appropriate clothing then !!!
Beastly stuff if spilt on clothing and can cause skin irratation as well.

We have a fellow allotmenteer that seems to use it as weed/pest killer and sprays Jeyes fluid over his plot. Seriously wonder why no one has complained.

Glad I'm not on an adjacent plot!

It was once recommended as a soil treatment, a number of decades ago, so could be a case of old habits die hard

REALLY?

He is one of the "know it all's" who think they own the place, complains about everyone. But has no consideration for his neighbouring organic allotmenteers. He told me just kill everything then fertilise....I ignored the advice.

Made me laugh when he took a van down one of the paths (illegally) and got it stuck in the mud. Though wasn't impressed when he drove over one persons beautiful lavendar without a by or leave.

thetangoman wrote:Hope you wear gloves and other appropriate clothing then !!!
Beastly stuff if spilt on clothing and can cause skin irratation as well.

It's nothing compared to what I've been soaked in over the years. As a young lad I worked in forestry and regularly used the herbicides 2-4-5-T and 2-4-D. That's the stuff the Americans used as a defoliant in Vietnam.

We mixed it with diesel oil to make it stick better to the plants and the backpack sprayers leaked all over the place so we ended up drenched. Got a few nasty rashes but I'm 63 and still here!!