August in Gloucester Township comes in thick — air you can lean on, thunderheads stacking over the Hilltop rise by four in the afternoon. Turf goes through something in that heat, and lawn care in deep summer is mostly restraint: cutting a little higher, keeping blades clean, trimming and edging so a yard stays defined even when growth slows to a crawl. NGI Landscaping works that stretch as carefully as it works the easy weeks of May, because a lawn that survives a South Jersey August comes back strong in September. There is a good feeling in the last pass of the day — mower shut off, walk blown clear, cicadas taking over the sound. Then the storm rolls through and the whole township smells like rain on cut grass.