num_pages: 160
description: 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 she chops off their heads and lets them bleed to death. Slug Bread &amp; 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 sugarFreshen your car with coffee groundsKeep out slugs with a bread dough that killsArmor your plants with soap sprayGrow disease-resistant plants by putting sick ones in your compost pileEradicate crayon marks with mayonnaiseProtect your roses with a minefield of garlicGet rid of raccoons with dirty laundryCure plant viruses with spoiled milk
language: English
title: Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles: Amusing & Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening
titlecomplete: Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles: Amusing & Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening
genres: Gardening, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 69
publisher: Crown