By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’ve been working in both Capreol and Garson long enough to notice a pattern that surprised me when I first picked up on it. Drive through Capreol in late July and the residential lawns hold their … Read more
Every spring, usually sometime in the last week of April or the first week of May, I get a text from a homeowner in the Sudbury area. Same person, every year. It says something like: “Hey Ryan, just checking in — are you taking on customers again this season?” He’s been sending that text for … Read more
There’s a property in Garson I worked on for two full seasons before I finally understood what was actually happening. I want to write about it because I think it illustrates something important — something that I see get missed on difficult lawns across Greater Sudbury, and something that would have saved this homeowner a … Read more
There’s a street in Greater Sudbury — I won’t name it specifically, but it’s a residential road with about a dozen properties on it — where I’ve been cutting multiple lawns since I started this business. Same street, same climate, same soil type, same everything. Three years ago, those lawns all looked roughly the same. … Read more
People ask me all the time what’s actually possible with a Sudbury lawn in one season. Not a lawn that’s been professionally managed for five years. Not a fresh sod installation on perfect topsoil. A real property — compacted soil, a few bare patches, maybe some thatch buildup — that gets the full treatment from … Read more
I drive a lot of roads in Greater Sudbury. Garson, Hanmer, Val Caron, Lively, Chelmsford, Azilda, Capreol, the South End, New Sudbury — I’ve worked properties in all of them, and after a few years of doing this I’ve started to notice that each area has its own character when it comes to lawn problems. … Read more
I’ve been working in Garson since I started this business, and over the years you notice things. Which properties are consistent. Which lawns hold their colour through a dry July when the neighbours go brown. Which homeowners seem to get better results year after year without doing anything obviously dramatic. There’s one property in particular … Read more
I’m driving down a street in Garson, and out of the corner of my eye I catch something green. Really green. The kind of green that doesn’t look normal in a neighbourhood where most lawns are patchy and struggling. I pulled over my truck. Honestly, I didn’t even think about it — I just stopped. … Read more