May in Augusta is the tipping point — mornings still mild, afternoons already leaning toward the summer coming, crepe myrtles thinking it over. Grass takes off in that warmth, and a yard can go from tidy to shaggy in eight days flat. So the work tightens its rhythm: mowing on schedule, trimming around trunks and posts, edging the drive and the walk, then blowing everything clean. A lawn kept up through this month holds its density all the way into September, when the heat has stopped forgiving mistakes. The whole summer is easier for not letting May slide.