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great ideas... wondered how effective some of them were. Living in Alaska, we are lucky not to have many of the problems listed, so I will fortunately won't get to try them out any time soon.
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Slug Bread & Beheaded Thistles: Amusing and Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening
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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 & 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
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 & 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
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Genres
gardeningnonfiction
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1995
This edition
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160 pages, Paperback
- Published
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May 16, 2000 by Crown
- ISBN
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9780767905428
- ASIN
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0767905423
- Language
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English
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Some great little "tips & tricks" without chemicals! Since I'm recently obsessed with my garden, I just loved this one!
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Good gardening and home care tips written in a humorous manner.
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Informative book with tons of tips on natural solutions to everyday problems.
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Another fun read by Sandbeck, a good tabletop book.
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An amusing little collection of ideas and things, and certainly a good starting point from which to pursue a variety of options in further depth elsewhere
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Useful little book
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Somewhat antiquated, but otherwise fun, informative and useful.
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