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“He had no school at that point, and he and the foreman, Lowell Frank, really hit it off. Early would sit outside and watch them, and one day Lowell invited him to join them. After that, Early was out there at 8 a.m. every day for six weeks, and he got to do everything, even pushing the rototiller. He went to landscaping school for six weeks, and it was amazing.”

Once you have a lush carpet of weeds, remove them with a rake, hoe or rototiller.

While many of us will soon be out there making like a human rototiller — turning the vegetable beds in the name of what we were taught “soil preparation” required — Charles Dowding takes a different tack.

Michaels said it looks like a field that’s been hit by a rototiller.

I powered through them, one after another, my hips turning like a rototiller.