April in Great Barrington is mud and birdsong — Lake Mansfield loses its ice in about a week, and every lawn in town comes out of winter flattened and gray. Jp Services LLC starts right there with spring cleanups: raking out matted thatch, clearing the sand left along the edges, cutting beds back to a clean line. Then the mowing season opens and runs until the first hard frost, with trimming and edging on every visit. Grass in the southern Berkshires grows fast in June and stubbornly in August, so the schedule bends toward the weather rather than the calendar. By the fall cleanup, when the leaves come off the hills all at once, the yard goes into winter tidy.