WANTED: SECURITY GUARDS FOR BACKYARD GARDEN IN THE CITY

uExpress, June, 2009 by Mark Hetts

Dear Readers: Mr. HandyPerson is off consulting with a Hollywood screenwriter about a movie based on his life (called "Everything Breaks"). Mark A. Hetts is filling in him this week with one of his tales.

I've got my little garden in for this summer in San Francisco, pretty much. Lettuce, basil, parsley, dill, four varieties of tomatoes and kohlrabi, a nostalgic gesture to my childhood in Wisconsin.

The backyard's arranged with the already existing shrubs, trees and perennials, along with my vegetables in beds and containers, so that a good portion of the yard remains semiwild, with lots of native plants and volunteers (i.e., weeds) to help attract bees, birds and butterflies. Lavender, California poppies, and many flowering shrubs and weeds bring honeybees and...

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