The ground around Franklin Park is red shale country, heavier than it looks and slow to give up a March rain. Green Nova Landscaping reads that soil for a living — waiting the extra day before the first mow, keeping tires off a lawn that hasn't dried, working mulch in where the water likes to sit. When spring finally breaks here it breaks fast: the grass comes on in a week and the whole township needs cutting at once. From then through October it is the weekly round, trimmed edges, shaped shrubs, and cleanups at both ends. Somerset County greens up hard, and this is work that keeps pace with it.