By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 I think about lawn care services the way I’d think about any spending decision — what does this cost, and what does it return. Most lawn care spending in Greater Sudbury produces a result that’s roughly proportional to the cost, once, … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 Every spring when I start walking properties across Greater Sudbury for the first assessment of the season, I find the same category of damage on a significant number of driveways and lawn edges — winter snowplow contact. Some of it is … Read more
I get asked this question constantly during sod season, usually from homeowners who’ve decided to handle the sourcing themselves rather than going through us for a full installation. “Where do you actually get your sod from? Should I just go pick some up myself?” It’s a fair question, and the honest answer is that where … Read more
A homeowner in Lively called me a while back comparing two quotes she’d received — one priced per cut, one priced by the hour — and she genuinely couldn’t tell which one was the better deal without doing some math she didn’t really want to do on a Tuesday afternoon. So I did it with … Read more
A homeowner in Hanmer asked me something last June that I get a version of pretty regularly during sod and seeding season. “Should I be putting up some kind of shade over the new sod? I keep reading about protecting new grass from the sun.” It’s a reasonable question, and the honest answer is that … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 Every spring the same pattern plays out in Greater Sudbury. Homeowners start getting quotes for yard work and lawn care. They call around — sometimes three or four companies — and the prices they hear are consistently higher than what they … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 I’ve had a lot of unusual conversations with homeowners in Greater Sudbury over the past six seasons. The one I want to tell you about happened last fall. It was the most unexpected conversation I’ve had in this business, and I’ve … Read more
I have one property in Garson that I’ve maintained continuously since 2020 — the same homeowner, the same schedule, the same approach, every single season since I started this company. It’s the closest thing I have to a long-term experiment, and it’s taught me more about what consistency actually does to a Sudbury lawn than … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 I don’t usually write about the business side of running Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping. The articles on this site are almost all about lawns — what they need, what goes wrong, how to fix it. But something happened when I … Read more
Before I ever pull into a driveway, I usually already have a reasonably accurate picture of what I’m about to find. Not because I’m guessing, and not because every lawn is the same — it’s because a handful of specific questions, asked in the first minute of a call, tell me a remarkable amount about … Read more