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CRANMER® ff â€" $Â¥ 844â€"5 ./ ~aâ€"1 245 VANCE DRIVE wrig giers, ADâ€"O6 master w hyperactive little (under five inches long) maroon colâ€" ored laborers that you will find in a compost pile when it is not hot, do not burrow as earthworms do. On quiet crescent. Main floor den, lartge kitchen with walkâ€"in pantry, 2 of the bedrooms have ensulites. Only $279,900. sarden w / *eex® F J$s dress They are just spe )8 IOC Un surface feeders (actually just below the surface) on dead organic matter. They have yÂ¥ _0‘ r a.c l o. uU & appetites and are very prolific. Their formal name is lumbricus rubellus but I think of them as salad worms because I feed them _ all _ my kitchen waste, but no meat or oils. During the During the summer months when they are most active I add to their diet with boxes of produce discarded from my local A & P. my local A & r. The manager is an avid fisherman and we have an affinity for red wrig giers. They make a superior fish bait because they are so active and they do not drown on the hook as earthâ€" A worm pile requires less work than a compost pile which has to be acrated regularâ€" worms do lex â€" tastefully greenspace, large 1y ly if you want efficient breakâ€" down â€" of _ the organic matter. Worms work quiâ€" etly and unsuperâ€" vised creating no unpleasant odors. They produce more manure than earthworms and it is confined to the pile so you can easily access it for the garden and for house plants. It is dvnamite! When I feed them I just lift off the top cover with a manure fork, lay in the new vegâ€" etable matter and cover them over I do the same all winter long but I do add a couple of extra feet of straw on the top and sides to keepn and sides t0 Keep the pile from freezing. It is often covered with snow, which is not a problem because again Insulator ~They letharei iDO n ut when the iture cold 50 degree bec n REAL ESTAITE rood ome the ither tem F they get right to work again. the Compared to norâ€" mal good topsoil it contains five times the nitrogen, seven times the phosphorus, and 1I1l «times. . the potash. It is a real tonic for houseâ€" plants. A worm pile is a win/win situaâ€" tion. You cut down on the bulk you would otherâ€" wise send to the overtaxed landfill, you receive the best organic fertilâ€" izer money could buy and you proâ€" vide gainful employment for deserving creaâ€" tures. grow or decrease in proportion to the amount of vegetable matter you provide and depending on the cool. moist enviâ€" ronment you maintain for them. I subscribe to several magazines that cater to the homeowner who gets involved with home chores, or in the words of that King of Klutz, Red Green. the kind _ of _ man whose wife finds him handy even if he‘s not handâ€" H O M MECHANIX How good is The colony will manure orfr n some Notice that I said, "subscribe;" so I want you to know that any critical praise I direct at a magaâ€" zine is unsolicited and unsubsidized. At the top of my list of doâ€"itâ€" yourself magaâ€" ziney are â€" The Family Handyman and. Home Mechanix. They coms tantly improve in design and usefulness. They never fail to motivate me to try new techâ€" niques and proâ€" jects, to improve my maintenance skills,; and to provide me with the instruction to make it all hapâ€" pen. Articles about wooden _ decks have a magical allure because everyone either has one, wants one or wants to improve one that he has. July/August issue of Home Mechanix goes all out with 18 pages devoted to five new deck designs, six descriptions of last year‘s winners of their design contest, _ three pages of tips for revitalizing your present deck, plus several comments on new products related to deck construction. Full color pho tos are spread lib the text and are guaranteed to thrust you into rallv throughout deck _ building orbit, or at least the design stage which will allow you to enter their annual _ contest worth thousands of dollars to winâ€" ners and runnersâ€" up. The only catch for Canadians is that the contest is partly sponsored by the California I phoned around for prices on redwood and they run around three times the price of western red cedar, which isn‘t cheap. K ¢ d w o o d Association so you have to conâ€" struct the deck from redwood. More imporâ€" tantly, I found.it impossible _ to locate a source that sells it. Let‘s hope the reason is they are finally restricting the cutâ€" ting of the old growth redwood forests which can never be replaced. The bottom line of the whole presentation is that when you buy paint you get what you pay for. Less expensive paints have fewer of the essential paints have fewer of the essential additives that are needed for ease of applicaâ€" tion, coverage, and long life. Our native cedar is just as durable and almost as glamâ€" orous and will provide just as much enjoyment, especially if you use the wonderful Home Mechanix designs. The June issue of the Family Handyman gives a good sampling of the wide variety of special features and regular departments that appear in each issue. How a Home Works describes how to make a latex paint perâ€" form better and more easily. A paint _ chemist describes how they have strugâ€" gled to improve latex paint since its first appearâ€" ance in an effort to make it spread as easily as oilâ€" base paints. Take a look at both of these magâ€" azines.