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

Sandbeck, Ellen

ISBN 10: 0767905423 / ISBN 13: 9780767905428

Published by Broadway Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2000

About this Item

Originally published: Duluth, MN : De la Terre Press, 1995. 145 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Seller Inventory # 008102

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles: Amusing and Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening
• Publisher: Broadway Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0767905423
• ISBN 13: 9780767905428
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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

About the Author

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