Zoysia and centipede have opinions about Georgia soil, and most of them come down to compaction. Southern Turf Services works the September window in Newnan, pulling cores out of the clay and leaving them on the drive to melt back in with the first rain. Fertility follows, then a mowing cadence that keeps a lawn even instead of going patchy with hunger. Come the next June, the difference is under your feet before it is in your eyes — turf that gives a little and holds its color straight through the heat. Newnan and the towns around it make up the map.