There's a week in Chichester when mud season finally loosens its grip and the hayfields off Route 4 turn a green you can smell from the road — that's the week the mowers come out. Northeast Landscaping Inc keeps lawns along the Route 28 corridor and the low rises above the Suncook tidy and even, week after week, through the long light of a Merrimack County summer. The pride is in the small things: a stripe laid straight down a slope, a clean line where turf meets an old stone wall, the walk blown off before the truck pulls away. Come autumn the same yards get combed clear of oak and maple, so the grass goes into the cold neat instead of smothered — and greets April already ahead of the season.