This past summer, Greater Sudbury went without meaningful rain for just over two weeks in July. Not unusual for us — most years have at least one dry stretch that runs ten days to two weeks through the middle of summer. But this one hit harder than most because it came after a dry June … Read more
I get called in every spring and fall to “finish” jobs other companies already did. Same pattern almost every time — someone hired a property cleanup, a truck showed up, some leaves got bagged, and the invoice came in lower than mine would have been. Looks like a deal, until you actually walk the property … Read more
I got a call last summer from a homeowner in Azilda who was confused and frustrated. She’d been watering her lawn every single day since early June — sometimes twice a day during the hottest stretches — and the lawn was getting worse, not better. Patches that had looked thin in spring were now fully … Read more
The call came in on a Wednesday afternoon. A realtor, not the homeowner, and she didn’t sound calm. Listing photos were booked for Friday morning, the sellers had been out of town for three weeks, and the front lawn looked, in her words, “like nobody lives there.” She needed it presentable in under 48 hours … Read more
I don’t see many lawn care companies publish their actual prices. The standard approach is “call for a quote” — which is understandable, because prices vary by property, and a blanket price list doesn’t account for the size, condition, and specific needs of individual properties. That’s a legitimate reason. But it’s also a reason that … Read more
Every fall I walk properties where homeowners have spent real money on their lawn through the season. Fertilizer programs. Bags of seed. Aeration. Sometimes sod on sections that kept failing. Watering on a schedule. Everything that the advice says to do. And the lawn is still struggling. Or it looked good in May and fell … Read more
The sod goes in on a Tuesday. It looks perfect — green, tight seams, uniform coverage. By the following Saturday, sections are yellowing. By the next weekend, there are areas that look like they might be dying. The homeowner calls me confused. The sod was installed correctly. The weather wasn’t extreme. What happened? Nine times … Read more
I get a version of this question several times a season. A homeowner calls me frustrated. They bought the exact same seed their neighbour used — same bag, same brand, same blend. The neighbour has a thick green lawn. They have patchy germination, bare spots, and grass that struggles through the first summer. Same seed. … Read more
Every spring, most Sudbury homeowners do roughly the same thing with their lawn — whatever they did last spring. They repeat the sequence. Maybe they adjust a little based on what happened over winter, but the basic approach is a continuation of the previous year’s approach rather than a fresh evaluation of what this year … Read more
I service properties in both Val Caron and Chelmsford regularly. They’re fifteen minutes apart on Highway 69. They’re both part of Greater Sudbury. They both have the same general climate, the same municipal water, the same general access to the same products from the same stores. And they are not the same lawn care environment. … Read more