September is one of my favourite months to drive through Greater Sudbury. Not because of the colours — though those are good — but because September is the month when the entire summer’s worth of lawn maintenance decisions becomes visible all at once. A lawn that was mowed correctly, aerated in spring, and watered properly … Read more
Some of the most instructive conversations I have happen when I’m working on two properties on the same street. Not always back to back — sometimes it’s a Monday job and a Thursday job on the same block. But when I’m walking both properties and looking at both lawns, the differences are impossible to ignore. … Read more
I drive the same routes through Greater Sudbury every week. Garson, Val Caron, Hanmer, New Sudbury — the same streets, the same neighbourhoods, season after season. And because I’ve been doing this since 2020, some of the properties I drive past are ones I used to maintain. Some of them I left because the customer … Read more
I turn down work. Not a lot of it. But regularly enough that it’s worth talking about — because the situations where I tell a homeowner not to hire me are also the situations where homeowners are most likely to waste money on professional lawn care that won’t do what they’re expecting. I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. The call came in mid-August. A homeowner in Garson — I’ll call her Diane — was confused and frustrated. She’d had her lawn aerated in spring. She’d been following a fertilizer program. She’d been watering consistently. In June her lawn had … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Every few weeks, someone calls me after doing their research. They’ve already figured out where to buy sod in Sudbury. They know Valley Nursery Sod is on Seguin Street near Chelmsford. They’ve called, gotten a price per roll, done the math … Read more
May is when I get a particular type of call that I’ve come to recognize immediately. The caller has just bought their first house. They’ve moved in sometime in the fall or winter, so this is their first real spring at the property. The snow has melted, they’ve walked outside to look at the lawn … Read more
Every spring, usually sometime in the last week of April or the first week of May, I get a text from a homeowner in the Sudbury area. Same person, every year. It says something like: “Hey Ryan, just checking in — are you taking on customers again this season?” He’s been sending that text for … Read more
I want to tell you something I don’t usually lead with in these articles. Since the first season of running Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in 2020, I’ve kept notes on every property I’ve worked on across Greater Sudbury. Not elaborate records — a notebook, then eventually a phone app, with basic information about each … Read more
There’s a property in Garson I worked on for two full seasons before I finally understood what was actually happening. I want to write about it because I think it illustrates something important — something that I see get missed on difficult lawns across Greater Sudbury, and something that would have saved this homeowner a … Read more