North Country Lawns

About North Country Lawns

Late May in Aurdal Township smells like lilac and thawed dirt, the lakes are open again, and every lawn in the county needs cutting at once. North Country Lawns opens the season with a cleanup — raking out the winter mat, picking up the sticks the ice brought down, tidying the beds — and then settles into weekly mowing, trimming and edging until the leaves fly. The soil here is glacial and mixed, so a single yard can hold sand, clay and black loam within a hundred feet, and the cut has to suit all three. Grass runs hard under long northern daylight, which is exactly why a schedule beats good intentions. By June the lawns look deliberate again.