Spring shows up along the Saline Branch first, in the bottomland woods where the ground goes green well before anybody's lawn does. Cutting Edge Lawn Care watches for that signal each year around Cunningham, then opens the season properly — the first mow, the trimming that tidies whatever winter left behind, the edging that puts a crisp line back on every walk and drive, the cleanup carted off. Central Illinois grass runs hard from April into June and then has to be nursed through the flat, humid heat that follows. Adjusting the cut to the month is the difference between a lawn that survives August and one that sails through it. Cunningham, Urbana, Champaign and Mahomet make up the rounds.