East of downtown the ground turns sandy and pine-scrubbed out toward Massasoit State Park, and Taunton lawns on that soil ask for a different hand than the heavier loam nearer the river. Patriot Lawn and Landscape LLC works with what the ground gives — mowing, edging, string trimming, seasonal cleanups in spring and again in fall. April out that way is a slow green, held back by cold nights coming off the ponds, and then all at once it is not. By the first cut of the year you can already read where the season is headed. Leaving a lawn tight, level and clean at the edges is the whole ambition, repeated weekly.