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Hi Folks - just a quick query - I'm about to launch my winter pruning and I wondered how I disinfect the pruners /loppers in between plants so that I don't spread any nasties. The GC was totally bemused by my query (but then, they usually are!)

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I never do, never had a problem.

You could dip them in a tub of Jayes fluid.

Or Milton?

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At my new allotment gardening evening course, our guy recommended antiseptic wipes as the easiest and quickest way. He said they should be disinfected between each bush/shrub/tree etc.

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Caro

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I've used anticeptic wipes after cutting back blighty toms, don't know if this is best but I didn't get any more blight afterwards

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Thank you Caro and Alison - that's exactly what I will do! How practical. I'm surprised the big companies haven't brought out a range of these themselves at double the cost!

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Sssssssh don't give them ideas

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I spray with WD40 to keep them in good condition, this will also serve to kill most spores/fungi etc.

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Mark

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Dipping them in petrol is supposed to work but tbh I've never bothered!

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Not perfect, but perfectly acceptable(Snadge)

By the time you've got the hoe from the shed at the end of the garden, you could have hand weeded the area! (Geoff Hamiltom-ish)

TBH I never bother. Just wash in hot soapy water when they get gungy. Obviously if you're pruning something diseased then you should use extra disinfectant.

I have used Milton, its safe to use around utensils and has no odour i'm told.

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WD40 and jeyes fluid. I only really disinfect if I know things are bad, like blighted tomatoes.

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ive got a pump bottle of alcohol hand rub in the shed and use that if ive cut back blighted toms

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Last year my pruning kit included a bottle of a well known Vodka (note: other vodkas can be used with similar results): Rockingham Forest Cider: Pruning

On a grafting course we used disinfectant wipes, so perhaps best save the vodka for other uses...

Mark

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Don't ever use vodka on your garden tools - DRINK IT INSTEAD

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Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

I've never done mine either! We've already got an OCD thread! This is very disconcerting for us idle bums.

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I kind of did. But I'm a beginner.

And it was an accident. Honest!!

Lets start a short cuts and idlebums thread?

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I'll be top of it!

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Read somewhere about keeping secateurs and garden knives stuck into a bucket of sand in between uses but I can't remember why.

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It scrapes off the gunk and is supposed to sharpen them a bit. Oily sand is often recommended. (I don't, of course!)

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Don't think i'll bother either Flum a quick wipe with a rag seems to work OK.

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