The first genuinely cool morning of September shows up over the ballfields at Veterans Park, dew heavy, the air suddenly clear enough to see clean across the outfield. That stretch is when Hamilton lawns do their real recovering, and Gola's Landscapes leans into it — aeration and overseeding, fertilization, mowing that carries on long after people assume the season has ended. Through the summer it is weekly cuts, tight edges, trimming and mulch; through October and November it is leaves, hauled off load after load. Grass does most of its serious growing when nobody is watching, in the cool weeks at either end of the year. Come the following May you can tell which lawns got the autumn work.