April in Clinton is the Sebasticook running high and brown, mud on every road, and lawns lying flat and gray waiting to be woken up. Fresh Start Gardening begins the year right there — raking out what the snow left behind, then mowing and trimming through the summer and edging the walks so the beds keep their shape. Come October the leaves arrive all at once off the big yard maples and the cleanup runs until the ground goes hard. Nothing about it is complicated; it is attention paid on a schedule, and it shows from the road. A lawn that greens early and stays even all summer is the whole ambition.