<b>Off with their heads!</b><br><br>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. <b>Slug Bread & Beheaded Thistles</b> reveals all of her best tricks. From bedroom to bathroom, garden to lawn, your home will be clean and green and pest-free.<br><br>Explode cockroaches with baking soda and sugar<br><br>Freshen your car with coffee grounds<br><br>Keep out slugs with a bread dough that kills<br><br>Armor your plants with soap spray<br><br>Grow disease-resistant plants by putting sick ones in your compost pile <br><br>Eradicate crayon marks with mayonnaise<br><br>Protect your roses with a minefield of garlic<br><br>Get rid of raccoons with dirty laundry<br><br>Cure plant viruses with spoiled milk