To help prevent grubs and slugs from ruining your planting beds, place a few slices of cucumber in a small pie tin and place in the garden. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drives garden pests crazy and make them slither off!
By leanne chaisson from Williams Lake, B.C.
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It's worth a try, but I also tried leaving containers of beer and that one didn't work. I am tired of sprinkling those pellets around the plants, though.
The slugs are all over the cucumber slices and not going away.
My resident slugs ate the cucumber as well as the lettuce...
Marg from England
Does english cucumber work or must it be a field or pickling cucumber?
This is absolute rubbish. They just get in the dish and eat the cucumber
I tried this with cucumber slices on aluminium foil and for 5 days my house was slug free then I came down one morning and found they had been and eaten the centres of the cucumbers. Same the next night!!!
Very interesting. used tea leaves are very effective as well. Just spread the used tea leaves on the veg bed between the rows of veg and the snails will not touch your produce
Very interesting. used tea leaves are very effective as well. Just spread the used tea leaves on the veg bed between the rows of veg and the snails will not touch your produce
I wouldnt spray ground slugs on your plants unless you want to consume rat lung worm eggs and have them eat your brain
LOL All that happened was the cucumber was eaten by the snails!!!
I did this and the next morning found that the centre of the slices had been eaten; leaving peel rings
The same thing happened to me, the centres were eaten but there was no slug trail/slime anywhere to be seen, so I thought it was something "unknown" that had eaten them.
Did anyone else see slug trails?
Haha the slugs love the cucumber. Back to the drawing board.
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