sulphur candles

[samseed]

hi all,is it wise to get all my pots etc stacked up in my greenhouse and blast it all with a sulphur candle?

[rustylady]

Trouble is if you stack your pots then the fumes from the sulphur candle won't be able to get to all the surfaces. I find the best thing with pots is to give them a wash with hot soapy water, specially if they are plastic pots this generally enough to clean / sterilise them.

[hollychap]

yep i agree with rusty a good hot wash

[samseed]

god i hate washing up ta neways

[super trowel]

I hate doing the washing too!

Don't do what I did though... I put all of my pots through the dish washer
The pots came out like new.

But the dishwasher blade thingy's gritted up.
When they spun sounded like they were grating

[jackyspratty]

Bob Flowerdew and Charles Dowding both argue that you dont need to wash pots unless you have had disease if you hate wasing them that much! ;D

[Matt94]

i always wash my pots, just to be on the safe side, oh and i washed my greenhouse with disinfectant then i fumigated my greenhouse last month with the clean pots inside the greenhouse - it cant do any harm!