Hey, I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. I want to tell you a story today that’s a little different from my usual articles. This one isn’t about somebody else’s property. It’s about mine. When my wife and I bought our house in Garson a few years back, … Read more
I get asked some version of this question a few times every season. Usually it comes up on a quote call from a homeowner who’s thinking about selling in the next year or two. They want to know if it’s worth putting money into the lawn before they list — or if buyers in Sudbury … Read more
I want to tell you about a property I pulled up to in late May a couple of years ago. The call came in from a homeowner who’d just bought the house the previous fall. He hadn’t seen the lawn in summer — bought it in October when everything looked dormant and okay. By the … Read more
I’m based in Garson. I’ve been cutting grass in the Valley communities since 2020 — Garson, Val Caron, Hanmer, and further out into Chelmsford, Azilda, Capreol. After five years of working across these neighbourhoods, I can tell you something that most lawn care articles won’t: the yards in these communities are not all the same. … Read more
Most of the calls I get are from homeowners. But a few times a month, it’s a property manager — sometimes a strata corporation, sometimes a commercial building owner, sometimes someone managing a multi-unit rental property across Greater Sudbury. And almost every one of those calls starts with the same problem: they got quotes that … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I walk onto a property and I can usually tell within two minutes what’s wrong with the lawn. Not because I have some special talent. Because lawns communicate. The colour, the texture, the pattern of where … Read more
I hear some version of this on almost every property assessment I do. “I don’t understand it. My neighbour across the street does basically nothing to their lawn and it looks incredible. Mine looks like this.” I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Since 2020, I’ve maintained properties across … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. I’ve been doing this since 2020 — working on residential and commercial properties all across Greater Sudbury, from Hanmer to Lively to Chelmsford. And in those years, I’ve seen a lot of dead lawns. But the one I want to tell you … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 July hits and I start getting the calls. Not the excited spring calls. The worried ones. “Ryan, my lawn was looking great in June. Now it’s going yellow. Did I do something wrong?” Or the opposite … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 Every spring, I pull into driveways across Sudbury and see the same thing — lawns that look absolutely done. Yellow. Matted. Brown patches everywhere. And the homeowner is standing there wondering if they need to rip … Read more