Sideline Mowing

About Sideline Mowing

Out at the edge of Mount Pleasant the mown ground stops and the corn starts, and by September that line stands eight feet tall and rustles all night long. Sideline Mowing works those margins as carefully as the open middle — the strip along the ditch, the back fence, the awkward corner behind the shed that nothing else ever reaches. Regular mowing, string trimming, an edge where turf meets concrete, and knocking back lots that got away from somebody during a wet stretch. Autumn here shows up on a clean north wind that empties the sky and takes the maples down in about three days, and the leaf work follows right behind it. Nothing fancy in any of it: a yard held in shape week after week, with the borders kept as sharp as the part everybody sees.