September is the turf month in Branford: the nights cool, the ground still holds its heat, and grass that struggled all summer decides to come back. Perfect Turf Landscape Services works that window — mowing and edging, beds weeded and mulched, hedges trimmed, seeding and feeding where the lawn thinned out, and the fall cleanup once the leaves begin. Near the Branford River the ground stays damp and moss pushes in; up on the drier lots the trouble is the opposite, and each one takes a different answer. Watching a bare patch fill in green across three weeks is a slow reward, but it is the real one. Branford and the shoreline towns around it.