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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 f...more
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 f...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
April 14th 2010
by Broadway
(first published 1995)
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Favorite Quote: Head lice can be killed by wrapping the afflicted head in a vinegar soaked towel. (Do not remove the head before doing this; it should remain attached to the body, no matter how angry you are at the child for bring lice home!)
This book has given me a major complex! Who knew vinegar was the miracle substance of the century. I don't know if it was smart to read this right before I started planting, and killing my weeds with deadly, skin-killing, sex inhibiting, earth hating poisons!
What was I thinking!
Holy crap I'm scared now.
What was I thinking!
Holy crap I'm scared now.
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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
A must read for anyone. As many tips on interior household cleaning formulas as exterior pest solutions.
Informative book with tons of tips on natural solutions to everyday problems.
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.
Some great little "tips & tricks" without chemicals! Since I'm recently obsessed with my garden, I just loved this one!
Great book, if you're looking for more non-toxic ways of gardening and house cleaning.... VINEGAR has so many uses! lol
Green and cheap organic gardening solutions, most of which you've already got in your home.
Good gardening and home care tips written in a humorous manner.
Another fun read by Sandbeck, a good tabletop book.
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