October along the Stony Brook is the finest month for grass in this corner of New Jersey — cool nights, soft ground, the meadow at Princeton Battlefield gone gold at its edges. Brady Brothers Landscaping, Inc. leans into that window with mowing, trimming, edging and fall cleanups, lifting leaves off the turf before they mat down and smother it. A lawn cut short and cleared in November comes back faster in April, and that is most of the secret. The last pass of the year leaves a yard bare and orderly, ready to sit under snow. Princeton, Lawrenceville, Pennington and Hopewell are the ground they cover.