lawn care - des moines, ia

About lawn care - des moines, ia

Des Moines keeps its two rivers close, the Raccoon folding into the Des Moines just below downtown, and the neighborhoods that grew up around them — Beaverdale's brick bungalows, the long shaded blocks off Ingersoll — measure summer by how fast the grass comes back after a rain. This is lawn care for those yards: weekly mowing, string trimming around fence lines, hydrants and the raised roots of old oaks, a crisp edge where turf meets concrete, and every walk left as clean as it was found. Late-June storms come up out of the southwest and the whole city greens overnight; by evening, when the light lies level down the street and the capitol dome catches the last of it, a finished lawn holds its stripes like something combed. In fall the work turns to leaves and to the last low cut before the ground stiffens. The reward is small and repeatable and worth showing up for — an ordinary block, and one yard on it that looks, from the curb, exactly right.