Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles: Amusing & Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening
by By Sandbeck, Ellen
Category: House & Home , Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing

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 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 pile Eradicate crayon marks with mayonnaiseProtect your roses with a minefield of garlicGet rid of raccoons with dirty laundryCure plant viruses with spoiled milk