By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I pulled up to the property at 6:58am. I know the time because I’d checked my phone in the truck before getting out — I’d arranged a 7am visit and I wanted to be on time. … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. “The lawn is fine. It’s not perfect, but it’s fine.” That’s what the homeowner — I’ll call him Dennis — told me on the phone before I drove out to his property in Hanmer. He was calling because he wanted to … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 It was the second season I’d been running Cutting Edge Lawn. A customer in the south end of Sudbury — a retired woman who’d been with me since my first year, always paid on time, never … Read more
Two houses on the same street in Val Caron. Same builder, same year, same size lot, same southern exposure. I walked both properties within the same week last spring. The plans I wrote up for each one had almost nothing in common. I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 Last week I drove out to quote a property in Greater Sudbury. Good-sized residential lot, homeowner seemed reasonable on the phone, the area was familiar to me. Nothing about the call suggested any reason not to … Read more
I turn down work. Not a lot of it. But regularly enough that it’s worth talking about — because the situations where I tell a homeowner not to hire me are also the situations where homeowners are most likely to waste money on professional lawn care that won’t do what they’re expecting. I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, … Read more
I want to be upfront about something: ten seconds isn’t enough to actually diagnose a lawn. I still do the full assessment on every property — the screwdriver test, the drainage check, the thatch measurement, all of it. Nothing in this article replaces that. But after five years of driving up to hundreds of properties … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 When I drive through a neighbourhood in Greater Sudbury — Garson, Hanmer, Val Caron, Chelmsford, anywhere — I notice lawns. It’s occupational at this point. And there’s almost always one property on any given street that … Read more
I was packing up the truck after a job in Azilda last fall when the homeowner, a woman named Theresa, walked over and asked me something that had nothing to do with the work I’d just finished. “Will you still be doing this next year?” It’s a simple question. I get some version of it … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 If you’ve searched “lawn mowing services near me” in Sudbury, you’ve probably found a list of names — some with websites, some with just a phone number, some with reviews that could mean anything. The options … Read more