March in Eaton County is a mess worth cleaning: plow sand along the curbs, matted grass, twigs the wind pulled off every maple between here and Wacousta. Lawn Tech opens the Grand Ledge season with that work — raking winter out of the turf, cutting back beds, taking the first low mow that wakes a lawn up. From there it becomes the steady program: mowing on rotation, trimming and edging, fertilization and weed control, aeration once the soil is ready to take it. The pleasure of a spring cleanup is how fast it pays — a yard that looked exhausted at nine looks alive by two. Then the grass takes over and the rest of the year is simply keeping up.