Mud season loosens its grip somewhere in early April, and mid-Michigan goes from brown to a green you can nearly watch arrive. First-In Turf Lawn and Landscape meets the year right there — spring cleanup, that first careful mow, then trimming and edging to set the shape a lawn will hold all summer. The ground around St. Louis is farm ground, patient and heavy, and turf takes to it well once the frost is finally out of it. Everything that follows is easier because of how the first pass was done. By June a yard looks like somebody meant it.