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

by SANDBECK, ELLEN

• ISBN13: 9780767905428
• ISBN10: 0767905423
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-16
• Publisher: Crown

Summary

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 Thistlesreveals 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

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book	xi
Introduction	1	(4)
Gardening	5	(64)
Housekeeping	69	(42)
Gory and Disgusting	111	(12)
In Conclusion	123	(2)
Bibliography	125	(6)
Periodical Literature	131	(2)
Supply Sources	133	(2)
Permissions	135	(2)
Index	137