[Ivor Backache]

I have been using JF to curb club root. Dig a hole use diluted, leave for 2 weeks add lime and plant. Never completely stopped the club root, but I did get decent crops. At £10 a tin I have had a rethink. I Obtained molehill soil. mixed it with supermarket compost, and planted all my brassica in plastic supermarket pots and I am getting the best results I have ever had.
As the potatoes come out these pots are being sunk in the ground. When it time to harvest, I will just take the pot home. Re-use the soil next year with some chicken poo thrown in.

[JimB]

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According to Jeyes themselves, it still is the same formula

My granddad was having a look on here, he said "they would say that wouldn't they".

According to him when Jeyes was cheap, it was thick and almost black, now it is watery and a slight purplish colour, though it still stinks!

[Mr Dog]

Before using a non selective poison such as JF, you should seriously consider that as well as possibly killing the white rot it will also probably kill good soil bacteria, fungi, worms and bugs as well as potentially harming mammals and birds........

[JimB]

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It does not harm never mind kill moles, since using on a mole run it has been in overdrive pushing up mole hills everywhere on my plot!

And it encourages useful bacteria and kills the bad ones so it is claimed!

[New shoot]

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It does not harm never mind kill moles, since using on a mole run it has been in overdrive pushing up mole hills everywhere on my plot!

And it encourages useful bacteria and kills the bad ones so it is claimed!

But, as has been said several times on this thread, it is no longer licensed for use on soil.  Whatever you choose to do on your plot, the forum policy would be not to encourage its use for anything it is not licensed for and therefore not to have open discussions on doing just that.

[sunshineband]

We keep saying that discussions about the use of Jeyes Fluid as a soil sterilant are not acceptable on this site, but folk keep popping up with what they do with it, so I am locking the thread.

If anyone has questions about how to deal with soil-borne diseases or with pests, please start another thread in which to ask these. Thank you.