By June the laterals are running full and the whole valley smells like cut alfalfa. Water decides everything out here — which lawns are truly green and which are only surviving — so Garcia Lawn Care & Services, LLC mows to match, leaving the height the season calls for instead of scalping a yard in the heat. String trimming tucks in around posts, meters and the trunks of young trees. Edges get cut until the walk has a shoulder again. Cleanups carry the rest away, and the yard goes back to being somewhere worth sitting in the evening.