Spring comes up out of the Licking River bottoms first — the low ground greens while the hillsides are still gray, and within a week every lawn in town is growing at once. Bluegrass Mulch & More meets that surge in Covington with regular cutting, keeping the first flush of growth from turning into a hayfield. Kentucky bluegrass wants a taller cut and a sharp blade, and it pays that back with color that holds deep into the humid stretch of the year. Trimming shapes the edges along the walks and around the porch steps, and the clippings are carried off so nothing tracks indoors. By May the yards on these river streets are dense enough to lie down in.