Carolina Grounds Keeper

About Carolina Grounds Keeper

By late October the frost line walks a little further down out of the mountains each night, and Caldwell County yards go quiet, gold, and deep in leaves. Carolina Grounds Keeper works that turn — the last cuts of fall, the leaf clearing that keeps a lawn from smothering under tulip poplar and oak, the tidy-up that gets a property ready to sit out the cold. Through the growing months it is mowing on a set rotation, trimming, edging, and blowing off the hard surfaces before leaving. Anyone who has walked the trails at Tuttle knows how much leaf a single foothills acre can produce. Come March, the lawn that was cleared in fall greens up first, and that is the whole point of the work.