Hometown Turf

About Hometown Turf

Saturday morning in Beech Grove and out toward Southport, the mowers start up one after another down the block, and Hometown Turf is usually the first of them. These are compact grids of postwar lots — front yards you can measure by eye, back yards with a fence and a clothesline pole — and they look their best when the cut is even and the edge is honest. The crew handles mowing, edging, trimming and clearing the clippings off walks and drives, then comes back on a schedule so the grass never gets ahead of anyone. Indiana summers push turf hard by August, so height gets adjusted rather than scalped. The point is a neighborhood where the lawns line up, one tidy rectangle after another.