🌿 Clean garden tools and greenhouses – with soap instead of harsh chemicals
When spring arrives and you're itching to get your hands in the soil, it's easy to forget an important detail: to give your garden tools and pots a good cleaning before the season kicks off. Doing it with soap instead of harsh chemicals is not only kinder to the environment – it's also gentler on you, your plants, and your garden.
🧼 Soap – the green cleaning hero
Soap is a fantastic all-purpose cleaner. It effectively dissolves dirt, grease, and mold residue, and it does so without harming either the soil or the plants. When you clean tools like spades, secateurs, or planting trowels:
Here's how you do it:
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Mix 1–2 tbsp of Västerbottenssåpa in a bucket with lukewarm water.
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Scrub the tools with a brush.
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Rinse, dry, and let air dry.
For pots, especially those used in previous seasons:
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Soak them in soapy water for a couple of minutes.
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Use a scrubbing brush or dish brush to remove soil and lime residue.
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Rinse and let dry in the sun – perfect disinfection included! Soap is harmless and easily biodegradable; what you should rinse off is the dirt you've scrubbed away. You don't need to worry about any soap residue.
🚫 Chemical-free is smarter
Many common cleaning agents leave chemical residues behind – and these can disrupt both the microlife in the soil and the well-being of the plants. Soap is biodegradable and a safe choice for both nature and your home.
Plus, you avoid strong odors and skin irritation. Good for you, better for the environment.
🌞 Crystal-clear greenhouses with Västerbottenssåpa
When the sun comes out, we want the greenhouse to be bathed in light – but dirty glass panes make the job harder for both sun rays and plants. Use environmentally friendly window cleaner from Västerbottenssåpa, which is based on rapeseed oil and ethanol from grain residues.
Works on: all glass and all surfaces that can withstand cleaning agents with ethanol in them; for special materials, check this with the manufacturer/seller.
👉 You can find the product here:
🔗 Window cleaner – Västerbottenssåpa
Soap in a canister can be found here
❓ Three questions from the text – and their answers:
1. What is the advantage of cleaning tools and pots with soap instead of chemicals?
Answer: Soap is gentler on the environment, your plants, and your skin. It is effective without leaving harmful residues.
2. How do you clean the greenhouse glass in an environmentally friendly way?
Answer: Use environmentally friendly window cleaner from Västerbottenssåpa, which works well on glass without negatively affecting the surroundings.
3. Why is it important to clean your garden tools before the season?
Answer: It removes old soil residues, mold, and any diseases that can otherwise spread to new plants – and the tools also last longer.