It was a Tuesday morning in late May. My phone rang at 6:58am. I looked at the screen and it was a customer I’d done a spring cleanup for the previous year — I’ll call her Sandra. Good customer, nice property in Val Caron, always paid on time and never gave me any trouble. I … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. I want to tell you about a street in Hanmer. Three houses in a row. Same builder, same year, same soil underneath, same Sudbury winters. One lawn looks genuinely excellent — thick, green, the kind of lawn you notice when you … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · May 2026 Last month I got a call from a homeowner in Sudbury. Nice guy. Big property. He wanted a full backyard transformation — new sod, retaining wall, interlock pathway, the works. He’d already gotten two other quotes. When he told me the … Read more
I don’t usually talk about the weeks that go wrong. Nobody does. You post the before-and-afters, the clean stripes, the happy customers. You don’t post the week where three things fell apart at the same time and you drove home on Friday wondering if you were actually cut out for this. But I think the … Read more
I get asked this question more than you’d think — usually by homeowners who’ve dealt with enough unreliable lawn companies that they want to know who they’re actually hiring before they hand over their property. I think that’s a completely reasonable thing to want to know. So I’m going to answer it properly. My name … Read more
I want to tell you about a call I got last spring from a homeowner in Val Caron. Her name is Sandra. She’d been dealing with the same lawn situation for four years — patchy, thin, half-dead by July every single summer. She’d tried seed twice. She’d tried fertilizer. She’d watered religiously one summer and … Read more
I want to be upfront with you before we go any further: I don’t install artificial grass. Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping doesn’t offer it as a service. So why am I writing this article? Because I get asked about it constantly. Every spring, at least a handful of homeowners bring it up on quote … Read more
I want to talk to you about something most people in Sudbury don’t realize until it’s too late in the season. There’s a window — roughly two weeks, usually sitting somewhere between mid-May and the end of May depending on the year — where the decisions you make about your lawn determine how it looks … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. I want to tell you about a property in Hanmer. The homeowner — I’ll call him Dave — called me in late April. He’d bought the house two years earlier. The lawn had looked decent when they moved in. First winter, … Read more
I’ll tell you something I notice on almost every property I walk for a quote. The lawn itself might be decent. The grass is green, it’s been cut reasonably often, there’s nothing catastrophically wrong with it. But it looks unfinished. Rough around the edges — literally. The grass is creeping over the driveway by two … Read more