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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: Suzanne on August 18, 2009, 21:13:33

Title: Millertox?
Post by: Suzanne on August 18, 2009, 21:13:33
Never heard of this - but the chap I inherited the shed from has left a large blue barrel which he had kept diluted millertox in. I was going to use it as a rain butt - but it smells really chemically.

Does anyone know what Millertox is and what it does.

By the way i am organic - but seems a waste of a barrel if i can wash it away without doing harm. Do think it will need several goes though.
Title: Re: Millertox?
Post by: Flighty on August 18, 2009, 21:17:01
Suzanne do you mean Armillatox?

http://www.armillatox.co.uk/
Title: Re: Millertox?
Post by: Fork on August 18, 2009, 21:17:25
Think you will find its actually called "Armillatox" and its an herbicide.
Title: Re: Millertox?
Post by: saddad on August 18, 2009, 21:22:33
The last three letters are a bit of a give away....  :-X
Title: Re: Millertox?
Post by: Suzanne on August 18, 2009, 21:24:20
I knew it was going to be something toxic - but not to what. He said he put it around the cabbage roots to prevent clubroot - so though it may be a fungicide.

Have read the link now, and looks like I could wash it out to get rid of residues.

Thanks all.
Title: Re: Millertox?
Post by: saddad on August 18, 2009, 21:27:09
It was widely used as a "cure" for Honeyfungus..  :-\
Title: Re: Millertox?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on August 19, 2009, 10:55:46
It's not a herbicide, it's a sterilising agent which is used as a fungicide.
Title: Re: Millertox?
Post by: tim on August 19, 2009, 11:08:26
I do the Greenhouse with it each Spring.
Title: Re: Millertox?
Post by: Barnowl on August 19, 2009, 17:08:27
A light spray of it is good at removing green algae from patio paving (don't rinse off) - it hasn't harmed the surrounding flowers and grass.