High summer in Jersey County is a green riot: everything along a fencerow reaching, every ditch bank thickening, every corner of a lot going shaggy in a week of heat and thunderstorms. VMC - Vegetation Management Company meets that growth head-on with mowing, trimming and edging, and cutting back the overgrown ground that ordinary passes miss. The work is plain and physical — walk the line, take it down, clean up behind — and the reward is a property that suddenly has its shape again. Around Jerseyville, where the prairie farmland runs up against the wooded ground falling off toward the river, that boundary needs holding every few weeks all season. Held well, a place looks open, tidy and finished, right out to its farthest corner.