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

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