Biointensive gardening, a method of growing food crops that can be traced back to ancient civilizations and, more recently, to European market farmers, was brought to the US by English master horticulturist Alan Chadwick. It has been popularized in the US by John Jeavons, author of How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine, and Lazy Bed Gardening. Jeavons practices biointensive farming on steep, tough terrain in Mendocino County California.

The Right Way
To do biointensive gardening, you have to double dig a bed by hand. Here are instructions on how to do it:

1. Mark the area where you want the bed.
2. Remove sod if necessary.
3. Loosen the soil.
4. Using a shovel, dig a trench one foot deep and one foot wide at one side of the bed. Put the soil in a bucket or wheelbarrow. Then, with a spading fork, loosen the underneath layer another foot down.
5. Moving backwards, repeat this process, but put the top 12 inches of soil in the trench you dug just before.
6. Work your way in this fashion to the end of the bed. Place the soil you removed from the first trench in the last trench.
7. Work compost and organic fertilizer into the top six inches of soil.

Sometimes we feel uncertain and need other people’s opinion or input, when we want to buy electronics. It can be we uncertain with the quality, specification, price, or other thing. We want to hear someone to share about the gadget we want to buy, to make sure that it is really the right gadget we want.

I found an electronics blog where we can dig the information about any gadget we want to know. Very complete!

Today industrial world already brought our earth on healthy air crisis. Say, you are 40 years old now, you may feel the atmosphere change significantly. When you were twenty, maybe you remember that you didn’t use air conditioner as much as now when you were driving your car in summer, because the air still clean so that you can open the car’s window.

What can we do to return the healthy air to our life now? Planting green tree as well as other green plants, means everything to our earth. The green leaves absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen in return. We know, oxygen is vital for life, on the other hand, carbon dioxide is one of the green house gases.

Let’s start to plant green leaves plants today. I’m sure everybody can do it, even you have only small yard. You can plant it in planters, either indoor planters or outdoor planters. Even if you have art taste, you can use decorative planters and make your home looks fresh.

There are two common explanations for the name Montmartre. One is that it comes from Mons Mercurii (Mercury’s Mount), after a temple of Mercury which is said to have stood here. The other is that the name is a corruption of Mont des Martyrs, since legend has it that St D,onysius (Denis), first bishop of Paris, was executed here along with - s companions Rusticus and Eleutherius .

Nowadays there are three Montmartres: the Butte Montmartre, the ‘ill (129m/423ft) on which are the Sacré-Coeur (see entry), the Place du Tertre and various little theatres and revues like Michou’s crazy drag show in Rue des Martyrs; the residential quarter of Montmartre; and the entertainment quarter on the Boulevard de Clichy with its numerous erotic establishments, which are also to be found round the legendary Moulin Rouge and in the adjoining side streets.

The Butte Montmartre is a place of legend and of history. From the 12th century this was the site of a large convent of Benedictine nuns, Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre, which was razed to the ground in 1794: only the name of Place des Abbesses is a reminder that it once stood here. For a time during the Revolution the hill was renamed Mont Marat, after the revolutionary killed by Charlotte Corday. In 1871 it was the scene of the bloody beginning and the still bloodier end of the Commune, whose defenders made their last stand here and on the Buttes Chaumont. The old wine-growing village, which was incorporated in Paris only in 1860, owed its international fame to the artists’ colony which grew up on the Butte towards the end of the 19th century and attracted chansonniers, writers and painters from far and wide, among them Manet, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Utrillo, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Picasso, Braque, Vlaminck, Emile Bernard, Courteline and Pierre MacOrlan. Picasso’s studio, the “Bateau-Lavoir”, became the centre of the Cubist movement, while the “Lapin Agile” with its chansonniers was the rendezvous of bohemian Paris. After the First World War, however, the artistic and intellectual hub of Paris moved steadily to the Montparnasse quarter .

But the charm of Montmartre lies not only in its memories. Although art and commerce have become one and the same thing in the Place du Tertre and people may argue about the “wedding-cake” architecture of the Sacré-Coeur, it is still true that if you take time to stroll about in the narrow streets and the steep flights of steps of Montmartre and enjoy the many, often quite unexpected, views of Paris it will be borne in on you very strongly what Paris has to offer -an infinite variety of impressions.