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Use Cucumber and Aluminum to Deter Slugs and Grubs

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!

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By leanne chaisson from Williams Lake, B.C.

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June 9, 20100 found this helpful

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.

 
September 15, 20220 found this helpful

The slugs are all over the cucumber slices and not going away.

 
June 13, 20100 found this helpful

But does it also drive away "good" insects, worms, etc?

 

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June 23, 20101 found this helpful

My resident slugs ate the cucumber as well as the lettuce...
Marg from England

 
June 27, 20130 found this helpful

Does english cucumber work or must it be a field or pickling cucumber?

 
June 10, 20201 found this helpful

This is absolute rubbish. They just get in the dish and eat the cucumber

 
June 27, 20201 found this helpful

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!!!

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Susan Smith, Saxilby, UK

 
June 28, 20200 found this helpful

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

 
June 28, 20200 found this helpful

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

 
September 16, 20200 found this helpful

I wouldnt spray ground slugs on your plants unless you want to consume rat lung worm eggs and have them eat your brain

 
November 16, 20201 found this helpful

LOL All that happened was the cucumber was eaten by the snails!!!

 
May 30, 20212 found this helpful

I did this and the next morning found that the centre of the slices had been eaten; leaving peel rings

 
September 3, 20221 found this helpful

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.

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Did anyone else see slug trails?

 
June 10, 20210 found this helpful

The slugs just eat the cucunber !!!!!

 
August 13, 20210 found this helpful

Haha the slugs love the cucumber. Back to the drawing board.

 

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