Under the lawns of Wyoming sits heavy West Michigan clay — slow to give up water in April, quick to bake hard by the Fourth of July. My Turf Fertilization & Pest Control reads a yard from the roots upward, feeding turf on a rhythm the ground can actually use and answering the weeds and insects that move in wherever the grass thins. Late May is when it shows: one lawn comes in deep and even to the property line while the next goes pale in stripes, and the difference was almost always decided underground, weeks before anyone noticed. Walking a property in the dry back half of August and finding it still thick, still holding its color, is the reason to do this at all. Turf that carries itself through a Michigan summer is the whole aim.