April shows up on the ballfields first — the ground softening, the grass coming back thin and flattened after a winter of gray and grit. Jay's Lawn Care & Landscaping starts its East Greenwich year in exactly that condition, with the spring cleanup that rakes out matted turf and debris, then the first cuts that pull the color forward. Through the warm months it is week-to-week mowing, trimming and edging, with mulch in the beds and shrubs kept in shape. Come fall the leaves come off in stages, so nothing sits long enough to smother what is underneath. Watching a tired yard turn back into a lawn is the part worth doing.