There is a day every October — often about when the fairgrounds up in Augusta go quiet — where the mowing tapers off and the thinking shifts to snow. J&B Landscape Inc lives on both sides of that day. Warm months mean cutting on schedule, trimming, edging and hauling off what the season sheds; cold ones mean plowing driveways and lots, shoveling walkways, and spreading salt before the refreeze takes hold. Newton sits high enough in the county that storms land a little heavier here than they do downstate, which is reason enough to be ready early. Between the two halves of the calendar, the ground is never left to fend for itself.