August is the honest month for a lawn in Monmouth County. Two weeks without rain and every thin spot shows, the high ground goes pale, and only well-fed turf carries its color into September. Extreme Green Lawns builds toward that all year — regular mowing at the right height, edges kept sharp along walks and beds, feeding on schedule, seeding the worn strips where the mail carrier and the dog have made their paths. Then the cool nights return, morning fog comes back off the river, and the whole yard deepens almost overnight. Watching a lawn come roaring back green is reason enough to keep doing this.