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 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, garden to lawn, your home will be clean and green and pest-free. Explode cockroaches with baking soda and sugar. Freshen your care 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 one 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