This question comes up more than you’d think. Someone orders sod, the delivery shows up, and then something changes. The ground isn’t ready. The installer can’t make it that day. Life happens. And the sod is sitting there on the pallet in the driveway. “Ryan, how long do I have before this goes bad?” I’m … Read more
I get this call more than people might expect. It’s usually not the senior themselves on the phone. It’s their daughter calling from Sudbury, or their son calling from out of town. The conversation usually starts the same way. “My mom is in her 70s and she’s been doing her own lawn forever but she … Read more
I’m going to tell you something I don’t usually lead with when I’m on a quote call. Before I started Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, I had a lawn that looked embarrassing. Not a little rough around the edges. Actually bad. Thin in patches, weeds everywhere, brown stretches through July that I couldn’t explain. I … Read more
This is one of the harder conversations I have with homeowners every spring. Someone calls me, I walk their property, and I can see pretty quickly that what they’ve got isn’t a lawn that needs more attention — it’s a lawn that needs to go. And nobody wants to hear that. They’ve been watering it, … Read more
Every June I start getting a specific kind of call. Not a problem call. A pride call. “Ryan, we’ve got people coming over in a week. Can you make the lawn look good before then?” I love these calls. It means the homeowner cares about how their property looks — and honestly, a well-maintained lawn … Read more
June is the month that decides what your lawn looks like for the rest of the summer. Get it right in June and you’ll have a lawn that handles July heat, stays green through dry stretches, and doesn’t need emergency work come August. Get it wrong — or skip it entirely — and you’ll be … Read more
This time of year I get a version of the same text from homeowners across Greater Sudbury almost every week. “Ryan, I just cut it five days ago. How is it already long again?” I get it. You mow on Saturday. By Thursday it looks like you haven’t touched it in two weeks. You’re cutting … Read more
Every spring, I get the same question before I even finish walking a property. “Ryan, just give it to me straight — what’s this going to cost?” I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Since 2020, I’ve done spring property cleanups on hundreds of residential and commercial properties across … Read more
You walk out to your yard on a Saturday morning and there it is. A brown patch. Maybe one. Maybe three. Yesterday it looked fine. Today it looks dead. I get calls about this every single week from May through August. I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Since … Read more
Every spring I get a version of this question at least a dozen times. “Ryan, should I aerate in spring or fall? My neighbour says fall. My brother-in-law says spring. I’ve read three different things online and none of them agree.” I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Since … Read more