Thanks for sharing this.

Yes thank you bernd for sharing and to Chris for the sharing of the original info.

u may want to use search on www.ewg.org for this:

LYSOL IC Quaternary Disinfectant Cleaner

kinda reminds me of when I found out that the 'plus' ingredient in Ortho Bugetta Plus is deadly to honeybees.

So I was OK not buying the BG Plus recently, but the less expensive Bug Getta. Even Walmart has that Lysol stuff.

I tried looking it up Hostahillbilly... no luck finding specifics but I will try again when I have more time. I was excited when I read the email but immediately wondered the side effects.

Here's a link to MSDS for this product. Against federal law to use in a manner not consistent with label.
MSDS

At first I was as excited as when windmill ppl started knocking on my door. Now, as then, 'the rest of the story' chills me.

Sorry to have created such a controversy. I did review the MSDS before using it, to know what I was handling, and should have posted a link to it in my article. Also I first learned of Lysol's fungicide properties when reading a study in a grower magazine where Lysol was used in a research study. And the farmer's almanac suggested soaking socks in lysol as a deer deterrent.

If you are interested in trying this then please purchase Consan 20 instead. Same ingredients and same results. I'm going to update the article to say this too. There are often things we use as home remedies that are not specifically approved, such as using bleach on plants would also be a label violation, and I should have specifically mentioned this. Sorry again for posting this.

Sincerely yours,

Chris

As a law abiding citizen I would never use any product for unlabeled uses. Besides, the local Walmart doesn't carry it. I'm more interested in its fungicidal properties. Consan 20, here I come! Thanks for the info.

Kathy

please Chris do not be sorry! you gave good information and it's up to us what to do with it. I'm glad you did!

hillbilly

As a member of the lysol police, thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention. You wanna be a deputy?

How about insecticides? Bees are insects and probably get affected by insecticides. So I would not be permitted to spray little ant hills because a bee might land on it? I am just mixing up 2 gal of a Bayer Advanced Complete Insect Killer solution to spray my hostas against nematodes. So any bee better not land on any of those leaves.

Disclosure, with 350 hostas I am not able to give them all hot water baths, and all recently described other chemicals are not available for home owners or too expensive, and I just have that Bayer bottle which helped somewhat against nematodes in past. I am using that Bayer spray consistent with federal law. I also have a bottle of Biosafe Disease Control, but in spring had problems with spraying it with a hose.

As it goes, I got more concerned nowadays about sprays in respect to my own health than any critters. Thick leaved hostas are the way to go when looking for less maintenance in the hosta garden.

I'm wondering if this might help with slugs like ammonia does.

The household chemicals use label issue is a personal and common sense decision - no different than speeding. Using bleach as a disinfectant is plain common sense - no political correctness intended or observed in its use in any inside or outside application.

It is bleach, with its own label use hazard warnings which are quite serious, but when followed are effective for the intended chemical use!!!!

All those that have never sped over the limit are allowed to give garden web hosta growing advice which we will all respect - the rest of us lawbreakers will remain anonymous until big brother finds out that you have been poring hot water in holes in your gardens,,,,,.

That is a climate change problem that our President has proposed banning for future use, so look for another option, away from using carbon burning energy. NO sunlight powered energy allowed, recall we are shady people.

Today I killed a bunch of slimy critters while planting hosta; shhhhh..... don't tell anyone.