Every spring I talk to homeowners across Greater Sudbury who’ve spent real money on lawn equipment — stuff sitting in the garage or shed that either doesn’t get used, doesn’t work for their property, or flat out wasn’t the right purchase for what their lawn actually needed. I’ve also seen homeowners who bought one simple, … Read more
I want to write this one a little differently than most of my articles, because I think it’s a conversation that doesn’t happen enough. A good number of the properties I work on in Garson, Val Caron, and around Greater Sudbury belong to retirees — people who’ve lived in this city for decades, raised families … Read more
I want to tell you about a hiring decision I made a couple of years ago that a lot of people thought was a strange one at the time. I hired someone who, for years before that, had been the person most likely to point out everything I’d done wrong on a job. Not in … Read more
It happens fast. One week your lawn is green and decent. Then a heat dome rolls in — four, five, six days of thirty-plus degrees with no rain — and suddenly you’re looking at patches of brown, crispy grass that feels like straw under your feet. I get more calls and texts during heat events … Read more
I’ve worked on properties all over Greater Sudbury since 2020, and there’s one conversation I have over and over again, usually with people who’ve moved here from somewhere else in Ontario. “Why is everything so hard here? I had a lawn in Barrie for fifteen years and never had problems like this.” And the honest … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Capreol is the northernmost community in Greater Sudbury — sitting on the Vermilion River, about 30 kilometres north of Sudbury proper, on terrain that sits closer to Canadian Shield bedrock than almost anywhere else in the city. I’ve worked properties in … Read more
I want to tell you about a property in Garson — close to where I live, actually — that had a problem for eight years before anyone figured out what it actually was. Three different companies had worked on this lawn over those eight years. Aeration, seeding, sod patches, fertilizer programs — all of it. … Read more
Partway through last season, a customer in Val Caron called me to say she was going with someone else. She’d been with us for two seasons — standard biweekly cutting, consistent, no issues on either end. I asked her what drove the decision. “They quoted me $20 less per cut.” I thanked her, wished her … Read more
I want to tell you a story that I’ve never actually written down before. Not because I’ve been hiding it — because it felt private. It still feels private, a little. But I think it says something real about why I do this work and what it means to do it in a community you … Read more
If you search “best lawn care in Sudbury” right now, you’ll get a list of companies with star ratings, some Google reviews, and not much else to help you make a decision. The companies at the top of the list got there through various combinations of paid listings, review volume, and SEO — none of … Read more