Battles Sulphur Candle 225g PACK OF 2 - Kill Greenhouse Pests and Spores

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Assuming the two are the same thing I Yellow Sulpur can be bought from Tamar Organics, Organic Gardening Catalogue and Suffolk Herbs so I would think it would be quite widely available.

I left my tomato plants in far too long last year and got botrytis spores by the million so I'm still thinking about it, although it would be as well as rather than instead of a good hose down and washing with Jeyes fluid solution. UK legislation requires approval for active ingredients used in all pesticides, including those for home garden use.I certainly cant do this at the moment , since although Cornwall is not as cold as other parts of the country ,it is still too cold to take out all my plants and stand them outside while I clean it . I don't want to have to wash down all the framework (its a wooden greenhouse)with disinfectant and even then I wouldn't be able to get into the cracks. It is good practice to check in the shed on a regular basis to ensure such products are disposed of safely. Every year about now I clear all the stuff out of my greenhouse, sweep it out and give the glass a good clean inside and out. I filled the sprayer and covered the inside getting into all the little nooks and crannys then left it shut up for two days.

I ended up taking a box of Swan Vesta matches and cutting the heads off and making a small pile of then with a line of more match heads to make a fuse them put the sulphur powder over the lot then setting light to the fuse line and the sulphur burnt almost out and three piles like that did a sixty foot polytunnel. Main use For the control of celery leaf spot, peach leaf curl, potato blight, tomato blight, apple and pear canker, bacterial canker of plums and cherries, rust on currants and gooseberries, cane spot on raspberries and loganberries. The chemicals expended from the burning candles make their way into the crevices and cracks chemical foggers do, but at little environmental cost -- sulfur candles are organic if you make them with organic beeswax.

and light a sulphur candle to wipe out any fungi or insect eggs that may be hanging around in the nooks and crannies. Avoid breathing the fumes from a burning sulphur candle as the Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) that is given off will irritate your nose and throat, irritation will also occur on the moist surface of the eye. No chemicals either, most of the time I am growing things year round anyway and don't want chemicals and after many years of not disinfecting my greenhouses, the growth hasn't stopped, there have been no horrors and I get hardly any blight (just a bit at the end of the season in November or December, together with grey mold.

I think that as this is a pesticide that would have the listed effects upon a human it is fairly safe to assume any wildfire in your tunnel would certainly not benefit. Although beeswax sulfur candles are better for the environment than pesticide foggers, they're just as harmful to your lungs and mucous membranes, so gloves, goggles and respirators are mandatory. Open the windows and doors after the candle extinguishes, and let the greenhouse air out for 24 hours.

Personally would not wash my crockery and cutlery in it but that was preferred to the alternative in wartime India, my 93yr old father is sometimes moved to assert. The RHS is extremely concerned about the potential unintended effects of pesticides on bees, other pollinators and the wider environment.