Slug Bread And Beheaded Thistles

Author : Ellen Sandbeck
Publisher : Crown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-14
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780307874627

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Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles by Ellen Sandbeck Pdf

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

Author : Ellen Sandbeck
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780767905428

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Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles by Ellen Sandbeck Pdf

An advocate for organic household cleaners and pesticides shares her favorite methods for maintaining a clean home and a glowing garden, naturally.

Author : Ellen Sandbeck
Publisher : de La Terre Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0964616408

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Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles by Ellen Sandbeck Pdf

Americans use approximately half a million tons of pesticide each year, but many studies suggest that this harms humans as much as unwanted insects. The household-cleaner industry is also booming, while The National Center for Health Statistics attributes the rise in respiratory cancers and diseases among homemakers to the use of toxic cleaning products. Restoring time-tested, human-friendly techniques for maintaining your home and garden, Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles offers ingenious, nontoxic alternatives to the highly poisonous chemicals found in the average kitchen cupboard. Try citrus as a solvent, or use sour skim milk to kill plant viruses. Rid yourself of lice with coconut oil. Baking soda, white vinegar, and coffee grounds all offer safe alternatives to deadly cleansers. In the garden, cornmeal cuts down on cutworms and wood ashes keep the slugs away. Overflowing with simple, highly effective tips like these, along with invigorating illustrations, Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles offers a refreshing way of living and thriving. Expanded from its successful self-published edition, this will be a staple ingredient for every chemical-free pantry.

Author : Ellen Sandbeck
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780767909204

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Eat More Dirt by Ellen Sandbeck Pdf

The author of Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles shares her healthful and entertaining approach to organic gardening, offering an array of nontoxic strategies and remedies to eliminate insects and garden predators, improve the soil, design an organic landscape, protect one's garden against disease, and more. Original.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Natural pesticides
ISBN : CORNELL:31924090229745

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Solutions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ron Krupp
Publisher : PublishingWorks
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0915731053

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The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening by Ron Krupp Pdf

RRon Krupp is a master of gardening and storytelling. "The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening" is a critical resource for beginning and experienced gardners who need seasoned, practical ideas. Ron has a deep respect for the power of the seed, and the importance of healthy soil. He shares his lessons through poetry, wit, and prose.S--Enid Wonnacott, executive director of the Northeast Farming Association of Vermont.

Author : Nell Newman,Joseph D'Agnese
Publisher : Villard
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781588362698

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The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life by Nell Newman,Joseph D'Agnese Pdf

It’s fairly obvious that one can’t be a ‘perfect’ environmentalist. But that’s okay. Perfection isn’t the goal. A good life is. And a good life has as much to do with your intent as with the end result.” —from the Introduction The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good Life is the essential book for those of us who can’t live in an organic hemp tepee but do care about our quality of life, global warming, clean water, and disappearing resources. Nell Newman shows you how to do what is within easy reach. Along with realistic, practical advice, she shows how and why living a more environmentally conscious life benefits you and your immediate surroundings. In addition to recycling and reusing, the book covers consumer-related steps such as • how buying and eating organic food supports small farms (and tastes better, too) • how you can buy clean power through your regular power company • which long-distance telephone companies offer competitive pricing and service while returning a portion of their profits to environmental and educational organizations • where to buy everything—from pots and pans to pet food—so that you can “vote with your dollar” and feel good about your purchases Packed with profiles of fascinating—and sometimes zany—people and a heavy dose of sanity, this book is organized according to the way you really live, making it easy to identify what areas of change are viable for you. A resource directory of publications, retailers, groups, and associations is included in the back of the book.

Author : C. B. Davis
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781425149987

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The Simplicity Connection by C. B. Davis Pdf

This practical and comprehensive guide will help us rethink how we treat our bodies, our spirits, and our environment. It shows how even our smallest actions can lead to a simpler, better life.

Author : Ellen Sandbeck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781416595700

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Organic Housekeeping by Ellen Sandbeck Pdf

Longing for a kinder, gentler world? As the old saying goes, everything begins at home, and odds are, if you live in the all-American household, the air inside is more toxic than the air outside, even if you live in the most polluted of cities. You regularly handle the filthiest object in your home -- the kitchen sponge -- and put the same chemicals on your face that are used in brake fluid and antifreeze. The cleaning agents and personal care products commonly marketed to and used in American homes contain not only some very dangerous, toxic chemicals, but they also create an "overly clean," chemically bombed-out house that compromises immune systems. And with more than fifty million Americans suffering from allergies and other autoimmune diseases -- not to mention the developing and fragile immune systems of children and seniors -- large numbers of people are actually being made sicker and sicker by their homes. Learn to live a clean, healthy, more economical way with Ellen Sandbeck, the nontoxic avenger. In this must-have book for the twenty-first- century home, this passionate, witty advocate of all things organic will teach you how to maintain every part of the home -- from living room to septic tank, kitchen floor to bathroom sink -- using safe, simple cleansers and quick preventative measures as well as the most effective organic products on the market to get the job done. Learn time-saving, preventative housekeeping, such as taking thirty seconds to clean the shower while you shower. Take care of bathroom stains with baking soda and vinegar rather than commercial, toxic bathroom "bombs" peddled to you with such force by manufacturers. Need whiter whites? There is no bleaching power on earth stronger than the sun. Snow clean your fine rugs. Choose fruits and vegetables from the relatively pesticide residue-free list. Clean felt-tipped pen stains with vodka. Make furniture shine with olive oil and lemon. Your house will also smell as great as it looks.

Author : Sharon Lovejoy
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781608933600

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A Blessing of Toads by Sharon Lovejoy Pdf

Through this collection of delightful essays and beautiful illustrations, long-time contributor to Country Living Gardner Sharon Lovejoy shares the boundless joys of a country garden. Lovejoy has chosen to focus on the natural world to be found just outside the door, including hummingbirds, caterpillars, and dragonflies, but her informative and witty prose also covers traditional plant care. The very titles of her sketches convey pleasure in the vibrant country landscape and the life that teems within it: “The Bumble Bee Rumba,” “Faeries in the Fuschias (sphinx moths),” “Holiday Feasts for the Birds and the Beasts,” and “Conversations with Sunflowers.” This compilation truly is—to borrow another of her titles—“Something to Crow About.”

Author : Ellen Sandbeck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1416576908

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Green Barbarians by Ellen Sandbeck Pdf

Sandbeck preaches a return to a more primitive way of life—a life with more joy and fewer household products. Green Barbarians demonstrates that by mustering a bit of courage and relying less on many modern conveniences, we can live happier, safer, more ecologically and economically responsible lives..

Author : Miriam Lukken
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-28
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780446556385

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Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping by Miriam Lukken Pdf

Mrs. Dunwoody is a character based on the author's great grandmother and other traditional Southern women who believe in the importance of making a house a home.

Author : Sharon Lovejoy
Publisher : Hearst Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1588163792

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Country Living Gardener a Blessing of Toads by Sharon Lovejoy Pdf

Through this collection of delightful essays and beautiful illustrations, Lovejoy--who produces the award-winning "Heart's Ease" column for the magazine--shares with her readers the boundless joys of a country garden.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Permaculture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924085819658

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Permaculture International Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Intellectual life
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022082247

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Mother Jones by Anonim Pdf