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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 Author:Ellen Sandbeck 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. S... more »andbeck'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
Quick and easy read filled with an enourmous amount of information. I will pass this along to my family to read before putting it away as a reference to battle any pests and weeds in the future. Ellen Sandbeck is a pleasure to read as always!