Bleach in Garden

[Meckity1]

I fail at gardening. I am a dreadful warning of what can go wrong.

I just saw an article on using bleach in the garden. How bad could that be? I've got a soakaway that I think could do with some bleach, but don't want to get things wrong.

Very very bad! Please don't bleach your garden! Why do you think your soakaway "could do" with some bleach?

Waffleswaffles I put bleach down drains.

The article suggested using it on paths, is that also wrong?

Yes of course it's wrong. Why do youdo it? What's the point of bleaching your drains and garden path?

Waffleswaffles I put bleach down drains to kill germs and the path is full of weeds and I was wondering about whether the article was right or whether I should just use boiling water instead.

Would you like to link to the article? Oddest idea I've heard in a long time. 'How to kill everything in your garden'.

lottiegarbanzo Link is here.
www.oversixty.com.au/lifestyle/home-garden/ways-to-use-bleach-in-garden

I guess pouring boiling water over the weeds is a better plan. I'm glad I checked!

I have this pretty unique method of sorting out weeds. Apparently in our village it is way out there.

I pull them out. I know, right?

Consider your mind blown. It was a pleasure.

TheAlternativeTentacle I'm glad you're able to do that.

I put bleach down drains to kill germs is there any reason you need to kill the bacteria in the drains?

I feel very sorry for the worms and ants which will be below your boiling water. Poor critters.

QforCucumber I thought everyone put bleach down drains now and again? I use vinegar a lot as well, but I don't want to put that on the garden.

Why are you concerned about germs in a drain in the garden? Do your children picnic on it? Do you hire it out as an operating theatre?

Why do you want to kill germs in an outside drain? Why would bleach be better than vinegar?

BillywilliamV It's right next to the footpath and they're always picking the football out of it, so I don't know if that counts?

I've got the message - no bleach.

I accidentally put dilute bleach on the soil round my bird table, all the worms came out and writhed about until they died. I washed them but it didn’t do any good. Then I had to clear them coz I didn’t want the birds to eat them Bleach belongs round the loo bowl once a week, not on the garden.

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No you really don't nes to put leach down your drains, or anywhere reallu.

NEED and REALLY

cross post. Bless You !

RaininSummer And you haven't got a neighbour threatening to pour diesel over the last plants your father planted before he died unless you get to their standard.

I've got the message - no bleach.

We don’t use bleach anywhere in the house or garden and none of us have got ill from house and garden germs.

I put my bare hands in garden dirt almost every day of my life and washing with soap and water does just fine, as it will for your kids.

That's really just talking about using it to clean things. Plus as a weird method of killing moss on paths (just scrape it off, surely - as you'd need to anyway, with the dead, bleached moss that results).

What's bad about bacteria in outdoor drains?

People clean the indoor end of drains - the sink outflows. You'd need to unblock a blocked outdoor drain. But what is there you'd feel the need to kill?

Well that was a drip feed and a half.

I use it on my slabs sometimes & the concrete windowsills.