March in Monroe Township is mostly gray — bare fields, wet brown yards, the whole township waiting on something. Then one warm week arrives and it all turns at once, and Ralph's Grow Green Lawn Care opens the year with cleanups, the first cut and the first feeding while the ground near Barclay Brook is still soft underfoot. From there it's a steady summer of mowing, trimming, edging and mulch, then aeration and overseeding once September cools things down. Green is the entire objective, and it's earned in increments — a little more color each week until the yard has come all the way back. Fall closes it out with the leaves cleared off, so nothing sits and smothers what took a season to build.