Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles: Amusing & Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening

Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles: Amusing & Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening

by Ellen Sandbeck
Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles: Amusing & Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening

Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles: Amusing & Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening

by Ellen Sandbeck

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Overview

Off with their heads!

Many homemakers and gardeners take the easy way out when it comes to exiling odors and banishing bugs--they use toxic chemicals that may be harmful to their families and the earth. Ellen Sandbeck has discovered that the all-natural alternatives are just as easy and effective to use, and that they are wickedly fun. Sandbeck's way of banishing thistles from her backyard kingdom is a case in point: she chops off their heads and lets them bleed to death. Slug Bread & Beheaded Thistles reveals all of her best tricks. From bedroom to bathroom, garden to lawn, your home will be clean and green and pest-free.

Explode cockroaches with baking soda and sugar

Freshen your car with coffee grounds

Keep out slugs with a bread dough that kills

Armor your plants with soap spray

Grow disease-resistant plants by putting sick ones in your compost pile

Eradicate crayon marks with mayonnaise

Protect your roses with a minefield of garlic

Get rid of raccoons with dirty laundry

Cure plant viruses with spoiled milk

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307874627
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/14/2010
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Ellen Sandbeck is a homemaker, gardener, and graphic designer who lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Bookxi
Introduction1
Gardening5
Housekeeping69
Gory and Disgusting111
In Conclusion123
Bibliography125
Periodical Literature131
Supply Sources133
Permissions135
Index137
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