March in Somerville is the honest month — snowbanks going gray out toward Green Knoll, meltwater finding every low spot, grass showing through in patches. Groundscare Landscape LLC works both sides of that turn, plowing and de-icing while it still counts, then coming in with mowers and rakes once the ground firms up. The rolling land west of town drains slowly, which teaches you where to tread and when to wait. Cleanups, cuts and edges through the warm months; salt and shovels again by December. A property looked after all year never has that abandoned look in February.