Topic: Jeyes Fluid

[mikey]

I hate using peat, and it's getting to the point where I'm thinking of going back to rolling my own. I used to use JI mixes, but with leafmould instead of peat, sterilised with Jeyes. It's just a matter of getting myself organised.

Roberts quote above is from the string concerning poor quality, bought Compost.

I am interested in hearing peoples experience using Jeyes Fluid as a steriliser. I have used it to wash plant pots and trays, but not as a soil or compost steriliser.

A few years ago I used it to wash Dahlia Tubers before winter storing, but was told this was harmful to the plant  :-\

comments appreciated 

[Robert_Brenchley]

All I can say is that I used it successfully years ago, mainly to make cactus compost. From what I remember, it was a case of watering it on, and leaving it for six weeks or so to dissipate. It was a lot less smelly that sterilising the compost in the oven!

[Ishard]

All my horse manure came smelling of jeyes so I presumed they cleaned the yard with it.
Plants seem fine and the smell has disipated over the last few weeks

[1066]

All my horse manure came smelling of jeyes so I presumed they cleaned the yard with it.
Plants seem fine and the smell has disipated over the last few weeks

Blimey!
But jeyes does have a very distinctive niff !!
1066

[shirlton]

I was told to water it around my paths to keep the foxes off but it don't work.

[Ishard]

Shirlton if you want to keep foxes off then 'home produced' water does the trick usually as foxes dont like humans much lol