Have you ever NOT deep cleaned your greenhouse, & what was the result, particularly if you grow veg?

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• cornelly Posts: 970

  January 2019

  Not since stopped growing exhibition late chrysanthemums many years ago. (2004)

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• Topbird Posts: 8,355

  January 2019

  I used to hoik everything out in spring and jet the glass inside & out using a hose. Any algae was scrubbed off using a brush and a solution of washing up liquid. I don't think I'd call it a deep clean - just a spruce up. The main reason for doing it was partly because I'm a messy worker and it was the best way to start the season with a tidy space and partly because I thought I should...
  
  That was over 20 years ago - I was younger and fitter. It was a small (8x6) lean-to greenhouse so it didn't take long. 
  
  I now just have a potting shed. It still gets a good tidy and sweep up and I clean the glass to maximise light - but I've never 'deep cleaned' it. 
  
  BTW - I also don't wash seed trays and pots🤭 I don't think @Hostafan1 and @nutcutlet do either - naughty people that we are...😉
  
  About 30 years ago, I did scrub pots and trays out using Jeyes fluid. Despite wearing gloves, my hands still had a faint whiff of eau-de-public-convenience 2 days later so I've not bothered since...
  
  
  

  Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  January 2019

  No pot or tray washing ever. Occasionally pressure wash the GH’s only because it gets so thick with algae but not every year.
  Grown tomatoes in the same bed in one of the GH for 30 years. Never had blight. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Nollie Posts: 7,529

  January 2019

  I have a polytunnel that I swept and tidied at the end of the growing season the first year I had it, only to disturb hundreds of hibernating ladybirds, so now I leave it until Spring. Then it will get a quick wipe over if its lucky, but no more than that.

  Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.

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• Hampshire_Hog Posts: 1,089

  January 2019

  I always wash my pots and trays, I'm now wondering if I'm being over enthusiastic maybe I should chill out more.
  
  
  

  
  "You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog

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• Buttercupdays Posts: 4,546

  January 2019

  There are always too many plants in my GH for it to be possible to deep clean!

  I wipe the glass if it needs it, sweep the floor, remove dead & dying leaves in winter to keep botrytis at bay. Another non pot washer

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• Allotment Boy Posts: 6,774

  January 2019

  I do wash the glass especially the outside on the one at home. I did use a smoke bomb in the Allotment one once because there were dozens of tiny snails in all the grooves of the rails, and they had ruined all my sweet red peppers. 

  AB Still learning
  
  

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• Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494

  January 2019

  Never deep cleaned anything either. Don't wash pots or trays - did it once and thought what a boring faff it was. Occasionally wash/wipe the outside of the small leanto greenhouse, especially the roof as lots of moss gets washed down off the main roof onto it. 

  North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone

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• Purplerain Posts: 1,053

  January 2019

  I always wash pots and trays, but only when I need them, like today when I did a lot of potting on. I don't have a greenhouse, only a porch and it gets a wipe down every week or so. 

  SW Scotland

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  January 2019

  I used to wash the glass panes once or twice a year to remove green stuff and debris but no chemicals.  Here we have a polytunnel and much stronger sunlight.  Haven't washed it yet and don't expect I will as there are hibernating butterflies and moths in there.  It gets a green mesh net to shade it in summer.

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

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