Yardwork: Things You Need to Know

• A yard of topsoil heaped in the bed of your pickup will make a much smaller pile on the ground where you need it.
• First and last to grow: weeds.
• There is a place for a square-point shovel.
• You can’t trust a flower lacking a common name.
• If a rock is too large to remove, it’s a feature.
• The more flowers you have, the shorter your summer vacations.
• Buying manure is a real thing.
• Annuals!

—Mitchell Hegman