July is when you really see what a lawn is made of. In May everything looks okay. The grass is coming out of dormancy, everything is green, and even a struggling lawn gets a temporary reprieve from all the moisture and mild temperatures. But July in Sudbury is a different story. By mid-July we’ve usually … Read more
Every season I show up to properties across Greater Sudbury and have a version of the same conversation. The homeowner tells me what they’ve been doing to their lawn. I listen. And somewhere in there I hear something that makes me want to ask: who told you that? Bad lawn advice spreads fast. A neighbour … Read more
Every week during sod season, I get some version of this call. “Ryan, it’s been two weeks since you laid the sod. It looks yellow in some spots. Is that normal? Should I be worried? Did something go wrong?” Sometimes the answer is yes, something is off. Usually the answer is no — what they’re … Read more
When I started out, I had a fertilizer recommendation I gave almost every customer. Balanced NPK — nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium — applied in spring and again in fall. Standard timing. Standard product. It was what most lawn care advice recommends, and for a while I didn’t question it much. Then I started paying closer attention … Read more
I need to be upfront about something before I start. I run a lawn care company. I’ve maintained hundreds of properties across Greater Sudbury since 2020. I write articles about what happens to lawns when they don’t get proper care. And then, two summers ago, I let my own lawn go for an entire season. … Read more
If you’ve been dealing with a Sudbury lawn that looks rough every spring — and you fix it, or try to fix it, and by the following May it looks rough again — I want to talk about what’s actually going on. Because that pattern, specifically, is telling you something. A lawn that responds to … Read more
I want to be specific in this article because I think vague lawn advice is part of the problem. When I say “the most expensive lawn mistake I see Sudbury homeowners make in October,” I mean one specific thing — not a category of mistakes, not a general direction people go wrong. One specific action … Read more
This question comes up fairly often when I’m booking fall sod jobs, and I want to give it a proper answer rather than the quick version I sometimes give on the phone. “Does it matter if we do it in August or wait until September? We’re trying to figure out the right time.” The short … Read more
Every spring, within the first few weeks of doing assessments and cleanups across Greater Sudbury, I see a version of the same thing. A homeowner walks me to their backyard and I can already tell, before they say a word, that fall cleanup didn’t happen last year. The lawn tells the story clearly — matted, … Read more
I’m not a soil scientist. I want to be upfront about that. But I’ve pushed a screwdriver into Sudbury soil on hundreds of properties and watched what happens. I’ve seen the same clay come out of the aeration machine on a Val Caron property that came out of a Garson property three kilometres away. I’ve … Read more