Cleaning?

[nilling]

I have never cleaned a pot or a tray - probably because I'm lazy. I can understand cleaning if you have had disease. What are the problems if i don't clean? How do you clean and what do you use?

[rustylady]

Just wash my empty pots and trays in hot water with washing up liquid. Or if I forget when I empty them I brush out any dry compost just before re-filling.

[Jeanied]

Damping off? Devastating to see those healthy little shoots keel over.

[HeyWayne]

I've only ever washed mine out with hot water and a stiff brush.

[zazen999]

I just brush them out before putting fresh soil in.

[Alison]

I just let mine dry out and brush off any loose compost before reusing. Never had any problem with this routine and life's too short to wash as well!

[Nicos]

I'm a brush off dry soil/pick off snails sort of lass too!!!

[Jardiniere]

i have given all my pots a wash - some with hot water , others just with cold - before putting them away in the cellar - however if i use them more than once during the year i just make certain they are clear of soil/compost.....

[Two_Sheds]

I never used to wash, but got fed up with having dry bits of soil and compost all over the shed, the kitchen, myself ... now I wash in hot soapy water with the other dishes (after the other dishes)

It's just nicer to pull out a nice clean as-new pot

[Glutton4...]

Last year I filled a plastic dustbin with water, and a large dose of ***** Fluid and soaked everything for ages, then rinsed off the gunk with a hosepipe.

Thanks to you lot, I have now deleted that job from my 'to do' list!

[Flummery]

Don't wash mine either. If anything nasty is going to happen, it's been waiting nearly 40 years to do it!

[zazen999]

I keep a paintbrush in the greenhouse just for this reason; it even has its own hook.

[maypril]

I have never cleaned a pot or a tray - probably because I'm lazy. I can understand cleaning if you have had disease. What are the problems if i don't clean? How do you clean and what do you use?

Assuming they are plastic pots, bung 'em in a dishwasher on the hottest cycle. That'll kill off all the nasties.

Life's too short to scrub plant pots.

[Alison]

Assuming they are plastic pots, bung 'em in a dishwasher on the hottest cycle. That'll kill off all the nasties.

Life's too short to scrub plant pots.

Don't fancy them in my dishwasher so will continue with my brush it off technique

[binley100]

I'm a brush off dry soil/pick off snails sort of lass too!!!

Moi aussie.