April in Stoughton smells like turned soil and thawing mulch, and the whole town seems to be outdoors at once. Green Fields Landscaping Materials spends that month on the work that sets up everything after it — raking winter debris out of the beds, cutting fresh edges, spreading mulch even and dark, and getting the first cuts in as the grass finds its feet. Summer settles into the weekly rhythm of mowing and trimming, feeding the lawn when it asks, keeping the beds clean. Then the leaves arrive and the long autumn cleanup puts the yard to bed. How a lawn looks in June is decided in April, and that is exactly the point.