A few times every season someone asks me whether they should install a sprinkler system. Usually it comes up after a difficult July — the lawn went brown during a dry stretch, they spent two weeks dragging hoses around, and they’re wondering if there’s a better way. It’s a reasonable question. And it has a … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 I’ve been doing quote visits and lawn assessments across Greater Sudbury since 2020. In that time I’ve been asked a lot of questions. What does aeration cost. Why is my lawn brown in July. How often should I water. What’s wrong … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 Every summer I get a version of the same call. A homeowner is back from vacation. They’ve been gone two or three weeks. They knew the lawn would need attention when they returned, but they weren’t expecting what they came home … Read more
I’ll be upfront about something before this story starts: I don’t enjoy talking about other lawn care companies. I’m not in the business of tearing down competitors. I’d rather spend that energy explaining what we do and why we do it the way we do. But occasionally a situation arises where the most honest thing … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 When I started Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson in 2020, I had a standard set of advice I gave to pretty much every homeowner I met. Aerate in spring. Don’t cut below three inches. Water deeply once a week. … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 Most lawn care companies quote a new customer the same way. They walk the property, measure the square footage, look at any obvious obstacles, and give you a price. The whole visit takes five minutes. They’re pricing a service, not assessing … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 I’ve been walking Sudbury lawns since 2020. Hundreds of them — quote visits, assessment calls, emergency calls in August from homeowners whose lawns had gone wrong. After enough repetitions, the first sixty seconds on a property tell you most of what … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 I was driving back from a job in Val Caron on a Wednesday afternoon last summer when I slowed down at a property on a residential street and almost kept going. The lawn stopped me. Not because it was dramatically bad … Read more
September is one of my favourite months to drive through Greater Sudbury. Not because of the colours — though those are good — but because September is the month when the entire summer’s worth of lawn maintenance decisions becomes visible all at once. A lawn that was mowed correctly, aerated in spring, and watered properly … Read more
Some of the most instructive conversations I have happen when I’m working on two properties on the same street. Not always back to back — sometimes it’s a Monday job and a Thursday job on the same block. But when I’m walking both properties and looking at both lawns, the differences are impossible to ignore. … Read more