Sunday morning in the Ironbound is quiet in a way the rest of the week never is: shutters still down on Ferry Street, the first tables going out, Independence Park empty and shining with dew. Mendes Landscaping Services works the yards behind those blocks — long, narrow, walled, and growing more per square foot than any suburb manages. It is mowing and trimming in tight quarters, edging against brick and iron, shrubs kept in shape, and twice-yearly cleanups that clear the whole year out. Newark summers here are humid and quick to grow, and the schedule is what keeps things in hand. Done right, an Ironbound back yard becomes a small green room with a door on it.