By deep July the heat lies on Lakewood like a hand, cicadas going in the oaks, the water at Lake Shenandoah flat as glass by noon. Grass in this sandy Ocean County ground grows fast and scorches faster, which is why Trinidad Landscaping LLC keeps to the early part of the day — cutting at a height that lets the turf shade its own roots, edging the walks, trimming the fence lines and tight corners a mower can never reach. A lawn done that way on Tuesday morning still reads as cut come Saturday afternoon. Later in the year the work shifts to cleanups, the last long growth taken down and the beds cleared before the cold sets in. Lakewood, Toms River, Brick, Jackson and Howell all get the same early start.