Tomáš Trejbal 15. 3. 2025 clock 3 minutes
An essential part of the successful and uncommon cultivation in the greenhouse is its cleaning and disinfection after the season (or before the following).
In a closed environment, diseases and pests are doing better than outdoors on a flower bed and without extra care, anxious cleanliness, but you can not prevent prevention.
Remove the residues of plants and weeds
Remnants of plants from the previous season and weeds can serve as wintering grounds for insects (including aphids, whites and thrips), mites, but also mushroom spores, bacteria and viruses causing diseases. Therefore, remove them closely. You can composure the uninterrupted (healthy) organic material.
Coarse the space to clean up
The greenhouse is all tools, vessels, seedlings, trails and other small things. Take bags of substrates. Fold the coarse dirt. If you have an irrigation stretched, remove it and remove the hose outside the greenhouse.
Wash and disinfect the surfaces
Wash glass, greenhouse construction and other smooth surfaces with an ecological disinfectant.
- Alcohol with a concentration above 70 % kills microbes, but is effective for a very short time. I use it to disinfect garden tools and gloves.
- Home and Garden Sanitizer from Bio D has long -term efficiency
Tip: The best option, specially developed for growing in greenhouses and aquaponic farms, is a purolyt. It is also used by professional growers. You can buy purolyt as a concentrate that you can use in different dilution proportions to disinfection of non -porous materials, but you are able to disinfect the space with it.
Revive and decontaminate the soil
The condition of the ideal is when you remove the residues of the plants and sow the green fertilization as soon as you reap in the greenhouse. Thanks to higher temperatures, plants will grow during the year. No matter how high green fertilization before the season, work it into the soil.
The ideal green fertilization in the greenhouse is the Vratičolistá, Vikev seams or the grain mixture. In contamination of the soil, vacuum the pests like green marigold fertilization.
Bring the soil before the season with a layer of compost or a comprehensive manure, which you will incorporate approximately 15 to 20 centimeters deep. Disinfection of soil can be helped by adding ground limestone in the amount of 300 grams per square meter.
Clean and disinfect tools and small objects
Tools, flower pots, power and more that you brought out of the greenhouse, return only after washing and disinfection. Use the same means you used for smooth surfaces. Disinfection also clean the irrigation hose if you have irrigation in the greenhouse.
The greenhouse is a big investment and these few steps will ensure that it will serve you reliably for generations and you will have less work during the year.
About the author
The journey from the city of Tomas Trejbal brought to the natural garden. He builds his, beautiful and sustainable with great passion. www.chciprirodnizahradu.cz
Source: Recipe magazine, Chciprirodnishradu.cz
