April in Sangamon County smells like turned black loam, the deep prairie soil that made this county farmland before it made it neighborhoods, and the bur oaks are the last trees to leaf out. Deep Roots Lawn Care & Landscaping works that ground all year, mowing, trimming and edging through the green season, then plowing, shoveling and salting when it goes white. Roots run deep in this dirt because the dirt allows it, and a lawn cut right through summer and cleaned up right in the fall comes back thicker in spring. Once the cold sets in, the same trucks are out with a blade ahead of the morning commute. Springfield yards, both halves of the year, kept the way their owners would keep them if they had the morning free.