March in Gun Plain township is all thaw — sand and grit washed to the road shoulders, winter's litter of sticks scattered across every lawn on the plain. Matt's Cutting Edge Lawn & Property Care starts the year there, raking out the matted grass and hauling off the mess before the first green shows. From that clean slate the season builds: mowing on a schedule, trimming the fence lines, keeping beds and property edges from creeping in. It is broad outdoor work rather than one narrow task, which suits properties out here where the lawn runs straight into brush. Come the first warm week, the difference between a yard that was tended in spring and one that was not is impossible to miss.