Seems like people here have never use the product in the garden and making comments from that perspective. I have so listen up.
You can safely use Jeyes fluid in your garden, just not on edibles. It generally comes in a metal can.
Before you start, get a watering can you can dedicate to using for this in the garden. Fill the 10 litre can with water first, then add 4 caps Jeyes fluid to the water. Use a stick to stir and mix. Add a squirt of dish washing liquid to get it to adhere to the foliage. Then sprinkle over the roses. Not only will this deal with black spot, but mildew, aphids and ants. There will be an odour but that disappears in a few days.
Jeyes has long been known in South Africa as a garden disinfectant for the , garden.
Enjoy your garden
I bed to differ. So listen up. You poison your garden if you want to.
Ok well I just used the spray version of this to disinfect pots (and tanks - Quadgrow) that had blighty tomatoes in them last year so too late. Everything still smells of it in spite of being rinsed and left out in the rain for nearly 48 hours now. (And I am seriously regretting doing it on the grass, as I have a cat...) Do I need to rinse until it stops smelling? Will it stop smelling?! I have used it before, but it was a few years ago. I suppose I could rinse the pots further inside but the tanks are another matter.
What should I used instead of it if I need to disinfect (big) pots and tanks again?
@pansyface I had the stuff left over so didn't buy any more. I will need to find a safe way to dispose of what I still have left. I grow in quadgrows so no question of the soil being too damp. I don't really think there is a lot you can do to avoid blight if it's in the neighbourhood.
I don't use (purchased ready prepared) chemicals to treat fungus or mildew. Tomato blight is untreatable as far as I know.
So any advice about the pots and tanks I have already used it on? I guess there is not much more I can do other than to give them another thorough rinse. I have a concrete enclosed area, inaccessible to pets, where the stuff an at least just go down the drain (better than directly into the ground).
I always associate the smell with my great uncle as he uses it to clean in his green house ( he’s 86 and has done all his life so won’t change now). I think the smell “wears off” but will linger about. I smell it still in his greenhouse and he last used it in January ☹️.
I know bicarbonate was mentioned as an alternative cleaner but it does also neutralise and deodoriser, I use it in new flasks and reusable water bottles to take that plastic taste away.
Thanks, @SherwoodArrow I guess the concern is, that if it still smells, there are still chemicals present, but... not necessarily in dangerous quantities (and it not smelling, doesn't necessarily mean there aren't any still present). There is only a faint whiff of it now. I am more concerned about my cat... I lost his sister last week. I couldn't bear to lose him. (Well full stop, but especially not after losing his sister).
WIll cleaning my garden tools with Jeyes Fluid kill Marestail spores, ? I have been using various tools to clear Marestail from a garden and want to Decontaminate the tools I have used... many thanks in advance
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You poison your garden if you want to.
What should I used instead of it if I need to disinfect (big) pots and tanks again?
I grow in quadgrows so no question of the soil being too damp. I don't really think there is a lot you can do to avoid blight if it's in the neighbourhood.
I don't use (purchased ready prepared) chemicals to treat fungus or mildew. Tomato blight is untreatable as far as I know.
So any advice about the pots and tanks I have already used it on? I guess there is not much more I can do other than to give them another thorough rinse. I have a concrete enclosed area, inaccessible to pets, where the stuff an at least just go down the drain (better than directly into the ground).
What a waste of water, though too!
I know bicarbonate was mentioned as an alternative cleaner but it does also neutralise and deodoriser, I use it in new flasks and reusable water bottles to take that plastic taste away.
Not sure if that helps but...
Failure is always an option.