The most common thing I hear before someone calls me about sod is some version of this: “I tried looking it up online and the numbers I’m finding are all over the place.” They’re right. Search “sod installation cost Ontario” and you get everything from $0.50 per square foot to $4.00 per square foot, with … Read more
I was doing a mid-season walkthrough at a property in Val Caron last summer — one of our long-term clients, three full seasons in — and she pulled out her phone mid-conversation and said “Ryan, look at this.” She handed me the phone. It was a photo of her front lawn from the summer before … Read more
Someone called me last summer after pulling up a tarp they’d left on their backyard lawn for about three weeks. They wanted to know if the yellow, flat, matted grass underneath was going to come back on its own — or if they’d killed it for good. It’s a question I get more often than … Read more
Let’s say I bought a house in Sudbury tomorrow. Hanmer, Chelmsford, Garson, wherever. And when I walk the backyard for the first time, I see what I see on a lot of properties I quote — long, patchy grass, bare spots, thatch buildup, maybe some standing water in a low corner, weeds filling in wherever … Read more
I started Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in 2020. Six years in, working lawns across Garson, Hanmer, Val Caron, Chelmsford, Azilda, Lively, Capreol, and Sudbury proper — I have a pretty clear picture now of what’s shifted in this market and what hasn’t moved at all. Some things genuinely have changed. Customer expectations have shifted. … Read more
Hey, I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Every once in a while a Sudbury property comes across my quote list that just doesn’t add up. Everything about the lawn looks normal from the street. The soil looks fine when you scratch at it. The neighbour’s yard next … Read more
Hey, I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Every spring I get a wave of the same phone call. Somebody has Googled “grass sod for sale near me” in Sudbury, they’ve found a few numbers, and they want to know how much sod they need and where they … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 From the street, it was one of the best-looking lawns on the block. Even, green, no obvious bare patches, the kind of property that makes you think the homeowner has it figured out. I’d driven past … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I get this call or message regularly across Greater Sudbury: a homeowner has noticed tree roots breaking through the surface of their lawn — visible ridges, sometimes thick woody roots, sometimes a network of smaller surface … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’ve written before about the question every Sudbury homeowner should ask before planting a tree. This is the more specific follow-up — the actual species I see causing the most damage to the grass around them, … Read more