Greenhouse Fumigation

Seems that you cannot buy the old fumigation smoke bombs of old. The only ones I can seem to find are the ones where you have to remove all the plants, complete with all their pests, fumigate, then put all the removed plants back into the greenhouse along with all the pests! Anyone know of any products you can still buy that will do the job properly, i.e plants and greenhouse:cnfs:

 

I think we've moved on from filling the greenhouse with poisonous smoke.

If you have a specific pest problem, deal with it on an individual basis, otherwise good hygene practices should do.

 

Sadly there doesn't seem to be anything like those effective smoke bombs available now. Sulphur works but as you've found you have to remove any plants - so it's OK for an empty greenhouse early in the year.

Good hygiene helps of course, but sadly most bugs just haven't grasped that concept yet :D

 

I tend to do as Quercus has suggested and deal with each pest on an individual basis. Apart from that - on a nice warm winter's day - there's something quite theraputic about putting the plants outside in the sun, filling a garden sprayer with a Jeyes fluid solution, spraying the nooks and crannies of the greenhouse and cleaning the glass.

Just as a BTW - I was once given one of the smoke bombs. Having read the instructions carefully, I lit 'the blue touch paper' and retired. Clearly it was going to take some time, so I went off to do some shopping and came home to find a fire engine outside! It was a warm day and I'd forgotten about the automatic vent on the greenhouse, so it opened, whereupon my then neighbour, seeing 'smoke' coming from what he thought was my husband's workshop, dialled 999 :dh::lollol::dh:

 

Thanks for the replies.
OK then, whitefly, how do you kill the little critters, tried all the chemicals I think, and they just Merrily fly about as normal

 

Try the natural approach http://ladybirdplantcare.co.uk/Whitefly.html

 

Pemethrin Smokes and Nicotine Shreds are still available but only in the trade.

I stopped using them in the 90's due to the health risk plus our greenhouses at work leaked too much when we lit them and the next thing we knew, the Fire Brigade were there!!:D

Try the biological way or use sticky card traps.

 

I have just done my clean down in both greenhouses and i use a steam cleaner, safe and very good for kiling bugs, eggs ect

 

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From the postings above, none of you have got whitefly or vine weevil.

Nothing works against these pests and I mean nothing, I have spent a small fortune trying.

Every suggestion on here and elsewhere I have tried, including good hygene!

I have just repotted every potted plant in my greenhouse with fresh, clean compost to try to deal with the vine weevil this winter.

But the whitefly, well I might as well go out and bay at the moon!

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Poisounous smoke! what was made of? Just think if that got into the wrong hands!