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Joey Green's Gardening MagicFeed your plants Aunt Jemima® Original Syrup?!
From the man who taught Jay Leno to shave with Jif® Peanut Butter and helped Rosie O'Donnell condition her hair with Reddi-wip® comes the first gardening book that tells you how to use the brand-name products sitting in your pantry right now to help you solve all your gardening problems.
The ever-inventive Joey Green returns with countless new ways to utilize products you'll find around your house-- saving yourself a trip (or trips!) to the garden center.
You'll love this treasure trove of inexpensive, quirky tips, like how to:
* Boost a compost pile with Coca-Cola®
* Control Japanese beetles with Wesson® Corn Oil
* Fertilize a lawn with Maxwell House® Coffee
* Protect tomato seedlings with Dixie® Cups
* Lubricate a lawn mower with Jif® Peanut Butter
* Deter deer with Bounce®
* Feed your flowers with Lipton® Tea Bags
And much, much more!
Joey Green, guru of weird uses for brand-name products, is also the author of Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures, Joey Green's Magic Brands, Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose, as well as more than 20 other titles. Joey has appeared on The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, Today, The View, and The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
Review
"Carefully researching thousands of popular products, often going straight to the manufacturers to learn how and why items may have uses their inventors never intended, Green appeals to the cunning side of every intrepid gardener who has ever had to shoo a squirrel or stymie a slug." Booklist
Synopsis
Solve your gardening problems with items from your pantry with more than 1,145 useful solutions using brand-name products.
Synopsis
Solve your gardening problems with items from your pantry. From the man who taught Jay Leno to shave with Peanut Butter and Rosie O'Donnell to condition her hair with whip cream.
Joey Green's Magic Garden, is compendium of practical tips for any gardener.
Here is just a sample of the more than 1,000 ideas you will find within:
- Waste weeds with white vinegar
- Grow moss with yogurt
- Germinate seeds with plastic wrap and paper towels
- Make a scarecrow with trash bags
- Kill slugs with beer
- Boost a compost pile with soda
- Fertilize a lawn with coffee
- Lubricate a lawn mower with peanut butter
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-315) and index.
Synopsis
Feed your plants Aunt Jemima® Original Syrup?!
From the man who taught Jay Leno to shave with Jif® Peanut Butter and helped Rosie O'Donnell condition her hair with Reddi-wip® comes the first gardening book that tells you how to use the brand-name products sitting in your pantry right now to help you solve all your gardening problems.
The ever-inventive Joey Green returns with countless new ways to utilize products you'll find around your house-- saving yourself a trip (or trips!) to the garden center.
You'll love this treasure trove of inexpensive, quirky tips, like how to:
* Boost a compost pile with Coca-Cola®
* Control Japanese beetles with Wesson® Corn Oil
* Fertilize a lawn with Maxwell House® Coffee
* Protect tomato seedlings with Dixie® Cups
* Lubricate a lawn mower with Jif® Peanut Butter
* Deter deer with Bounce®
* Feed your flowers with Lipton® Tea Bags
And much, much more!
* Control aphids with Tabasco® Sauce
* Waste weeds with Heinz® White Vinegar
* Germinate seeds with Bounty® Paper Towels
* Make a scarecrow with Glad® Trash Bags
Synopsis
Feed your plants Aunt Jemima® Original Syrup?!
From the man who taught Jay Leno to shave with Jif® Peanut Butter and helped Rosie O'Donnell condition her hair with Reddi-wip® comes the first gardening book that tells you how to use the brand-name products sitting in your pantry right now to help you solve all your gardening problems.
The ever-inventive Joey Green returns with countless new ways to utilize products you'll find around your house-- saving yourself a trip (or trips!) to the garden center.
You'll love this treasure trove of inexpensive, quirky tips, like how to:
* Boost a compost pile with Coca-Cola®
* Control Japanese beetles with Wesson® Corn Oil
* Fertilize a lawn with Maxwell House® Coffee
* Protect tomato seedlings with Dixie® Cups
* Lubricate a lawn mower with Jif® Peanut Butter
* Deter deer with Bounce®
* Feed your flowers with Lipton® Tea Bags
And much, much more!
* Control aphids with Tabasco® Sauce
* Waste weeds with Heinz® White Vinegar
* Germinate seeds with Bounty® Paper Towels
* Make a scarecrow with Glad® Trash Bags
Synopsis
Feed your plants Aunt Jemima® Original Syrup?!
From the man who taught Jay Leno to shave with Jif® Peanut Butter and helped Rosie O'Donnell condition her hair with Reddi-wip® comes the first gardening book that tells you how to use the brand-name products sitting in your pantry right now to help you solve all your gardening problems.
The ever-inventive Joey Green returns with countless new ways to utilize products you'll find around your house-- saving yourself a trip (or trips!) to the garden center.
You'll love this treasure trove of inexpensive, quirky tips, like how to:
* Boost a compost pile with Coca-Cola®
* Control Japanese beetles with Wesson® Corn Oil
* Fertilize a lawn with Maxwell House® Coffee
* Protect tomato seedlings with Dixie® Cups
* Lubricate a lawn mower with Jif® Peanut Butter
* Deter deer with Bounce®
* Feed your flowers with Lipton® Tea Bags
And much, much more!
* Control aphids with Tabasco® Sauce
* Waste weeds with Heinz® White Vinegar
* Germinate seeds with Bounty® Paper Towels
* Make a scarecrow with Glad® Trash Bags
About the Author
Joey Green, guru of weird uses for brand-name products, is also the author of
Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures,
Joey Green's Magic Brands,
Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose, as well as more than 20 other titles. Joey has appeared on
The Tonight Show,
Good Morning America,
Today,
The View, and
The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
Table of Contents
Contents
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Ants
Aphids
Azaleas
Barbecues
Beans
Berries
Birds
Bulbs
Cabbage
Cats and Dogs
Clothing
Compost
Corn
Cut Flowers
Cuttings
Cutworms
Deer
Diseases
Eggplants
Fertilizer
Flowers
Fruit Trees
Fungus
Garbage Cans
Gardenias
Garlic
Germinating
Gloves
Gnats
Gophers and Moles
Grapes
f0Hand Cleaner
Harvesting
Herbs
Hoses
Hot Caps
Houseplants
Insects
Japanese Beetles
Labels
Lawn Mowers
Lawns
Lettuce
Melons
Mildew
Mosquitoes
Moss
Mulch
Onions
Patio Furniture
Peppers
Poison Ivy
Potatoes and Avocados
Potted Plants
Pruning
Pumpkins
Rabbits
Rodents
Roses
Sap
Scarecrows
Seeding
Skunks
Slugs and Snails
Soil
Squirrels and Raccoons
Staking
Storing Seeds
Tomatoes
Tools
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Wasps
Watering
Weeds
Whiteflies
Worms
Acknowledgments
Sources
Trademark Information
Index