Spring along Dutch Creek arrives with the cottonwoods still bare and the ground just soft enough to work. That is when CB Aerations goes out across Columbine pulling cores from packed turf, leaving the little plugs to melt back down while air and water finally reach the roots again. Front Range clay compacts hard under a season of foot traffic and hose water, and opening it up is the difference between a lawn that struggles in July and one that carries its color. Alongside that comes overseeding into the fresh holes, the weekly mow, edging, feeding and the cleanups that bracket the growing year. It is unglamorous work done in exactly the right week, and by June it speaks for itself from the curb.