By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 A client of mine in Greater Sudbury called me in early June with an unusual request. She’d been using our service for two seasons but wanted to hand the weekly cutting over to her son — he was twelve, old enough … Read more
I want to be honest about something before this story starts: I’ve turned down lawn jobs before. I’ve written about a few of them — the Val Caron homeowner I declined three separate times before the drainage problem was finally fixed, situations where taking the job would have meant taking someone’s money for a result … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 Walk any residential street in Greater Sudbury and look at the lawns carefully. Not the main open sections — the middle of the front yard, the visible backyard through the gate. Look at the edges. The … Read more
If you’ve ever Googled “spring lawn care schedule” and followed what you found, there’s a reasonable chance you’ve been working against your own lawn without knowing it. Almost all of the mainstream lawn care timing advice online — the guides from big box stores, the articles from national lawn care brands, even some of the … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 For the first couple of years I was doing this work in Sudbury, I recommended robotic lawn mowers to homeowners who asked about equipment upgrades. The pitch made sense to me at the time — consistent … Read more
I get asked this question a lot, usually by homeowners who are either justifying a riding mower purchase they’re already leaning toward, or trying to figure out if their current setup is actually working against them. Both are fair conversations to have, and I want to give you the straight answer rather than the one … Read more
Every September and October, a portion of my customer base starts having the same conversation with me — a version of it, anyway. It goes roughly like this. “We’re heading south in early November. We’ll be back sometime in April. What do we do with the lawn?” Sudbury has a meaningful snowbird population. People who’ve … Read more
I started Cutting Edge Lawn in 2020. I’d been working on lawns before that — helping out, learning, picking things up — but 2020 was the first year I was running jobs myself, making the calls, giving the quotes, and being accountable for the results. I made a lot of mistakes that year. 47 is … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 New Sudbury Centre — the mall on Lasalle Boulevard at Barrydowne — has been the dominant retail anchor for this part of Greater Sudbury since it opened in 1957. The residential neighbourhoods around it developed alongside it, expanding outward through the … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 Most of what I talk about in lawn care is about the grass itself — what it needs to grow, how to manage it through Sudbury summers, what goes wrong when the basics aren’t right. But there’s a landscaping principle I … Read more