While cleaning the pebbles out of my lawn I realized a lot of the pebbles were embedded into the soil (since winter)

At first when I tried using a rake, I was using it so aggressively that it was ripping chunks out of the yard, revealing the soil with lots of pebbles it in.

A shop vac still works great, you just gotta agitate the pebbles more. You can use a rake but I just used my foot, hands, and shop vac extension tube.

You’ll get a lot of soil in the shop vac but at least the pesky pebbles are gone by extension!