Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #333150 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From Booklist
Whether gardeners are going toe-to-toe with Mother Nature or head-to-head with roving raccoons, it seems they're forever facing frustration. Though garden centers abound with gadgets and potions promising to eradicate even the most obstinate pest or problem, resourceful gardeners who enjoy relying on their own craftiness will welcome Green's shrewd solutions to common garden complaints using garden-variety products. From baking soda and bubble wrap to peanut butter and panty hose, many ordinary kitchen and bath items can be pressed into double duty. Entertainingly written, Green's fun yet factual, peculiar yet practical guide, covers the gamut of garden and garden-related vexations, from ants to zucchini, barbecues to boots. 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. Carol Haggas
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From hand cleaners to lawn care and some unusual facts
Feed your plants Aunt Jemima Syrup? Enhance a compost heap with Coca-Cola? Use Gatorade to protect small plants from hungry rabbits? Joey Green's Gardening Magic is filled from cover to cover with not just gardening solutions, but ideas for home enhancement using brand-name products. From hand cleaners to lawn care and some unusual facts, Gardening Magic provides a gardening guide which will entertain even as it educates.

Awesome! The Cure for a Green Thumb!
I got this book as a Christmas present, and wow, it's a gardener's dream. Instead of running out to the gardening shop to get expensive pesticides or plant foods and what have you, this book tells you what common household products you've already got around the house can be used to solve your gardening problems...saving time, money, and definitely saving you lots of aggravation. Plus, the tips are all environmental so you're not using hazardous pesticides, just friendly products like Maxwell House coffee and Pam cooking spray and Coca-Cola and whatever else you have around the house. This book is truly a must for any home gardener. I don't know how I ever got along without it.

Not a gardening book, rather a trivia book!
The contents are not reflective of the title. A large part of the text covers non gardening trivia. This book would be about half it's size, with the unrelated items taken out.

If you are looking for a book covering such topics as Cracker Jack, Gilligan's Island, Love Boat, the history of the Slinky toy (almost two pages), Go-Jo hand cleaner, Animal Crackers and KoolAid (each a full page), cap guns and similar, then this is the book for you.