Tim's Turf & Landscaping Materials

About Tim's Turf & Landscaping Materials

Litchfield lies long and low along the east bank of the Merrimack, where river fog lifts off the fields by mid-morning and the light comes in flat and generous across sandy river-bottom ground. This is soil country, and Tim's Turf & Landscaping Materials is a soil-country business: sod and screened loam, stone and mulch, grass seed and fertilizer — the raw material a yard is actually made of, sold by the yard and the pallet. There is a plain satisfaction in watching it land: a bed topped dark so every green thing in it reads sharper, bare ground knitting closed under fresh sod, a lawn fed on the right week and holding its color into the long light of August. When the cold turns the river slate-gray, the shelves turn with it — wood pellets for the stove, ice melt for the walk — and the season is met with the same practical grace. Around Litchfield and out across the New England towns, it is the quiet supply line behind a great many good-looking pieces of ground.