August in Stamford can go three weeks without rain, and by the end of it you can read a whole neighborhood by which lawns are still standing up. Water Wise Lawn Solutions looks after grass through that stretch and the rest of the year besides — mowing at heights that let the blades shade their own roots, fertilizing on the calendar the soil keeps rather than the one on the wall, aerating ground gone hard, and overseeding once September cools things down. A lawn that's fed and cut properly holds its own moisture, and that is most of the trick. There is a real pleasure in walking a yard in late summer and finding it green from the driveway to the back fence. Then the rain returns and the lawn is ready for it.