Browsing our local department store today and in the gardening department noticed sulphur candles for disinfecting the greenhouse.
This got me wondering, what treatments are allowed nowadays in a domestic greenhouse?
More to the point what do other people find actually works?
I intend cleaning all the glass using a large pan sponge/scourer that the OH buys as bath cleaners, together with a Jeyes Fluid solution in a bucket.
Chemicals in the house?
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I don't disinfect at all and the only pest I have is red spider mite which I'm sure would return whether I disinfected or not. There are lots of spiders, though!
Don't forget if you disinfect you'll be killing the goodies as well as the baddies.
Don't forget if you disinfect you'll be killing the goodies as well as the baddies.
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peter, were you thinking of buying the sulphur candles because you need to cure a problem? or just because the store was selling them? personally i just clean the glass and plastic whan it gets a bit green to let the light in.
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Richard, no I was curious as to what was now available and for what purpose.
Sulphur candles did strike me as an iteresting solution, surely the sulphur burns and arrives as some sort of oxide?
I remember all sorts of ignitable tablets containing noxious chemicals from when my dad was able to use his greenhouse.
Sulphur candles did strike me as an iteresting solution, surely the sulphur burns and arrives as some sort of oxide?
I remember all sorts of ignitable tablets containing noxious chemicals from when my dad was able to use his greenhouse.
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