Quincy ground is thin over stone, which is the first thing anybody serious about turf here learns. TurfSalamone builds its year around that fact — aerating compacted soil, overseeding where the cover has gone sparse, feeding on the lawn's own timetable, and mowing at the height that lets roots go down instead of sideways. April rain is the season's real ally: soft ground, cool mornings, seed settling in before the summer sun arrives to test it. Standing on a lawn in July that was bare and grey in March, and feeling it spring back underfoot, is the reason for all of it. Good turf is not luck in this city; it is a sequence, run in the right order.