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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Article: All About Composting
Since there's a lot of composing questions lately, here's a great article that gives everything you need to know about composting:
http://www.gardeners.com/All-About-Composting/5061,default,pg.html
It's too long to post here, but it covers:
- How Compost Helps Your Garden
- Compost improves soil structure
- Compost provides a balanced source of plant nutrients
- Compost stimulates beneficial organisms
- Compost is garden insurance
- How Compost Happens
- Carbon
- Nitrogen
- Water
- Oxygen
- Do I Need a Recipe?
- Sample compost recipes
- Common compost ingredients
- Compost Gets Hot
- To Turn or Not to Turn
- Worm Composting
- Types of Composters (with pictures!)
- Plastic stationary bins
- Tumbling or Rotating Bins
- Wire Bin
- Trash Can Bin
- Block or Brick or Stone Bin
- Wood Pallet Bin
- Two- or Three-Bay Wood Bin
- For More Information...
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Re: Article: All About Composting
i reposted this on my blog with credit to you! do you have a blog? i cant remember!
also, where do you live in n. va? my husband is moving there in july, and i am moving at the end of august/early september. we are moving around alexandria? i actually haven't even been to the area yet! haha
Nope, no blog. I should make one as I have so many green articles and musing saved up, I'm just lazy
We live in Chantilly, that's about 30-45 mins west of Alexandria. You'll learn when you get here that while the NoVA cities look close together on the map, it takes forever to get from one to another. My 22 miles commute from Chantilly to Fairfax (which is still west of Alexandria) takes an hour. I'm happy to answer any specific questions you have about the area, just page me on this board