By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 I think about lawn care services the way I’d think about any spending decision — what does this cost, and what does it return. Most lawn care spending in Greater Sudbury produces a result that’s roughly proportional to the cost, once, … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I get this call or message regularly across Greater Sudbury: a homeowner has noticed tree roots breaking through the surface of their lawn — visible ridges, sometimes thick woody roots, sometimes a network of smaller surface … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’ve written before about the question every Sudbury homeowner should ask before planting a tree. This is the more specific follow-up — the actual species I see causing the most damage to the grass around them, … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 Every spring when I start walking properties across Greater Sudbury for the first assessment of the season, I find the same category of damage on a significant number of driveways and lawn edges — winter snowplow contact. Some of it is … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’m a lawn care company, but a meaningful part of what I see across Greater Sudbury properties involves the ground around the lawn — driveways, walkways, the transition zones between hard surfaces and grass. And there’s … Read more
Hey, I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. This is one of the most common phone calls we get every spring. Somebody is shopping around for lawn mowing, they’ve called two or three companies, and the quotes they’re getting are all over the place. So they call me … Read more
I get asked this question constantly during sod season, usually from homeowners who’ve decided to handle the sourcing themselves rather than going through us for a full installation. “Where do you actually get your sod from? Should I just go pick some up myself?” It’s a fair question, and the honest answer is that where … Read more
Hey, I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Gravel driveways are one of those things Sudbury homeowners don’t really think about until they suddenly become a problem. The car bottoms out in a new pothole. Water pools where it never used to. Half the driveway is washed onto … Read more
A homeowner in Lively called me a while back comparing two quotes she’d received — one priced per cut, one priced by the hour — and she genuinely couldn’t tell which one was the better deal without doing some math she didn’t really want to do on a Tuesday afternoon. So I did it with … Read more
A homeowner in Hanmer asked me something last June that I get a version of pretty regularly during sod and seeding season. “Should I be putting up some kind of shade over the new sod? I keep reading about protecting new grass from the sun.” It’s a reasonable question, and the honest answer is that … Read more