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    Hi all
    Could anyone please tell me the best soloution to wash veg pots tubs and the like.
    Kind regards
    Simon

  • #2
    I never wash pots.

    I have a paint brush and just brush out the debris before I pot up.

    I did a load once and my hands were that cold, I vowed never again...

    *I would of course, if I had an infestation of something....

    If you want to wash your pots up, just use washing up liquid...the same as you would with dishes.

    I'm guessing you are a bloke, so don't forget to add water to your washing up liquid before you use it
    Last edited by zazen999; 06-03-2011, 03:39 PM.

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    • #3
      I jet wash my patio's and a couple of years ago had a bright idea. Lined all my pots up against the fence and gave them a squirt. Spent the next half hour collecting my pots from the neighbours garden.

      Lik Zazen I no longer wash them as routine just dry brush them.

      Colin
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      • #4
        Thanks for that. Water eh..

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Potstubsdustbins View Post
          I jet wash my patio's and a couple of years ago had a bright idea. Lined all my pots up against the fence and gave them a squirt. Spent the next half hour collecting my pots from the neighbours garden.

          Lik Zazen I no longer wash them as routine just dry brush them.

          Colin

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          • #6
            I don't wash pots, I think it unnecessary unless there has been some sort of disease. As others have said, just brush out.
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            • #7
              I wash my 3" pots in hot soapy water, I like them all clean and shiny.

              Don't bother for bigger pots though
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                When I'm potting on I have a bucket of water next to me and drop the pots into that, when I've finished they just need lifting out and stacking to dry.
                Location....East Midlands.

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                • #9
                  I tapped out all the dry soil, then moaned about the idea of washing them all. OH then suggested the dishwasher, so I used that If I'd said 'I'm going to wash these in the dishwasher' he'd have flipped, but as it was his idea...... He even washed out the filter afterwards for me.
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                  • #10
                    I have never told anyone that I don't wash my pots as I assumed I was just *BAD*.

                    Now I realise I am in good company I feel better

                    I have thought about putting my 1/4 size seed trays in the dishwasher. Seedlings are probably the most vulnerable stage ... but, touch-wood, I've never had trouble with seedlings ... so they haven't, yet, been washed either
                    K's Garden blog the story of the creation of our garden

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                    • #11
                      I may be useless at washing down the greenhouse or regularly turning the compost heap, but I excel at annual plant pot/module/seed tray washing. It's a ritual for me in Feb/March. That said, my veg plot is at home and I have a big Belfast sink in the kitchen, so it's a lot easier for me than those grapes with an allotment. ***** fluid everytime, even though the odour lingers for days.
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                      • #12
                        I got hundreds off Freecycle a few weeks back and thought best to wash them first (only the ones i needed, not all of them lol), but that was mainly because i've read you should do so to ensure any lingering nasties are killed off. If the experienced peeps here are saying they don't bother then i guess it mustn't be much of a problem
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Chef_uk View Post
                          If the experienced peeps here are saying they don't bother then i guess it mustn't be much of a problem
                          Good point, although in your case you don't know what the original use of the pots was, and whether "diseased" or not, so washing the first time sounds like a sensible precaution to me.
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                          • #14
                            Life is already far too short to waste it washing pots

                            Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

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

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                            • #15
                              The only 'pots' I wash now are those left in the sink for me by SWMBO, you know cups saucers that sort of thing.

                              Colin
                              Potty by name Potty by nature.

                              By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


                              We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

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