Author Topic: Jeyes fluid (Read 29517 times)

Vez1 · « **on:** September 11, 2005, 21:11:21 »

This may seem like a strange one buthere goes. ome of the men at my allotments use Jeyes Fluid to disinfect the ground, now I am all for disenfecting where you are going to grow new plants etc but surely there is a better way than this. Do any of you know anyone who does this?
I think that this is far too extreme in the chemical dpartment, please tell me if I am wrong.
If anyone knows of a better, more organic way of doing this please let me know.

tim · « **Reply #1 on:** September 11, 2005, 21:19:07 »

Jeyes as been used to sterilise soil since God was a boy!
Armillatox is the in thing now.

Dominique · « **Reply #2 on:** September 11, 2005, 21:40:09 »

Someone on the allotment uses Jeyes fluid :o (diluted... ) on his brassicas... 'The pigeons won't touch it' he says. They don't.
D

flowerlady · « **Reply #3 on:** September 12, 2005, 09:43:27 »

Wow, and what do they taste like afterwards?
Do they send you 'clean round the bend?'

:-[ Sorry couldn't resit that :-[

But seriosly do the plants not absorb any of it?

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #4 on:** September 12, 2005, 09:57:33 »

I'd be worried about damage to the soil fauna.

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #5 on:** September 12, 2005, 10:01:45 »

It's not pleasant at all, but if you have a chemical toilet on the plot it's good for that, or it's good for sterilising compost.

Doris_Pinks · « **Reply #6 on:** September 12, 2005, 12:00:12 »

I do love the smell, takes me back to my childhood!
Not surprised the Pigeons haven't touched his brassicas, I wouldn't either! :o

Icyberjunkie · « **Reply #7 on:** September 12, 2005, 12:08:42 »

Also illegal to use it I believe.........

weedgrower · « **Reply #8 on:** September 12, 2005, 17:59:06 »

i use jeys fluid 1 part to 10 about 1 week before i plant my brassicas as it helps keep clubroot at bay. a lot of our plotters use this method and it seems to work. just make your hole, fill it with mixture and when it has soaked in put a handfull of lime in, leave it a week and plant brassica's
weedgrower

Vez1 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 13, 2005, 21:11:58 »

Thanks all of you for the help ;D. I thinkI will skip the jeyes fluid and try a kinder method.

tim · « **Reply #10 on:** September 14, 2005, 06:27:34 »

It's still recommended for white rot & honey fungus.

Derek · « **Reply #11 on:** September 14, 2005, 07:06:22 »

I had a small amount of Jeyes in the corner of the shed...I brought it home and it has been diluted and put into small plastic containers.
Holes have been made in the sides of the containers at the top about an inch below the lid. The pots have then been 'planted' in the front garden to a depth of two inches (the tops above soil level)

Well...at the moment its working No cats messing up the front garden..if it continues ...HOORAY for Jeyes.

Derek

Bionic Wellies · « **Reply #12 on:** September 14, 2005, 07:14:29 »

I have used Jeyes fluid to clean up sections of my lotty in order to be able to grow onions.. For a long time, every time I planted onions they would start well any then a grey powdery surface would cover the whole lot (generally within a week or two). So I started watering the area I was to use for onions with a dilution of Jeyes fluid (once in autumn and then again in early spring). True, the plot did smell like a newly cleaned men's urinal, and it probably slaughtered every living thing in the ground - buts that is what I wanted to achieve. I can now grow onions successfully and the just don't get any of those soil born diseases.

I've never tried Armillatox, but from what I've heard from others it ain't nearly as potent as Jeyes fluid. So you end up having to use a lot more.

Having just read what I've written it looks like I'm a chemical warrior - but honest guv I'm not ... since seeing off the spores with Jeyes fluid I am almost entirely organic (use a bit of growmore). But I only got to be able to grow onions (without having to wait for years for the spores to go away on their own!) by taking this drastic action.

-- Alan

MikeB · « **Reply #13 on:** September 14, 2005, 08:17:55 »

One thing jeyes fluid is excellent for is cleaning the greenhouse at the end of the season.

Multiveg · « **Reply #14 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:23:07 »

You can get organic growmore.

jennym · « **Reply #15 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:28:45 »

It is now illegal to use it for any other reason than that shown on the can. Not advisable therefore to use on edible crops, on soil, etc.

Multiveg · « **Reply #16 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:37:05 »

That reminded me of COSHH (control of substances hazardous to health?) regulations - what are you supposed to do if you spill water????

jennym · « **Reply #17 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:43:45 »

Quote from: Multiveg on September 14, 2005, 12:37:05

That reminded me of COSHH (control of substances hazardous to health?) regulations - what are you supposed to do if you spill water????

pardon? ??? since when was water hazardous to health??? :)

Bionic Wellies · « **Reply #18 on:** September 14, 2005, 14:10:50 »

When you are 30m down with no way or breathing air! - sorry ;D

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #19 on:** September 14, 2005, 22:42:26 »

Reminds me of a policy they brought in at work when the COSSH regulations first came in. We wereforbidden to bring any 'substance' into work unless it was approved first. Unfortunately they neglected to define what a 'substance' was. So in theory we should have been arriving in our birthday suits.

Personally I'll still use Jeye's fluid for sterilising soil. I asume it's still used in chemical toilets, and what do they think people do with the contents?

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