I get asked about pricing almost every single day, and it’s usually the same underlying question dressed up differently: “why is your quote higher than the guy who mowed my lawn for twenty bucks last summer?” It’s a fair question. The honest answer is that “grass cutting” means completely different things depending on who you’re … 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
I started Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in 2020. I was 23, I had a truck, a trailer, and enough confidence to make up for what I didn’t know yet. Five years later, I’ve worked on hundreds of properties across Greater Sudbury, built a crew I trust, and learned more from this city’s lawns than … Read more
There’s a street in Sudbury I’ve been cutting for three years now. I’m not going to name it — that’s not the point — but I’ve been on it every two weeks, season after season, long enough that I know every lawn on it the way you know a face you’ve seen a hundred times. … 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’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Every spring, one of the first questions I get — before people even ask what’s wrong with their lawn — is some version of this: “Ryan, what does grass cutting actually cost around here?” It’s a fair question. And honestly, it’s … Read more
I get this one on quote calls at least a few times a week through May and June. Homeowner walks me to the backyard, waves their hand at the lawn, and says something like: “I don’t even know what happened. Last year it was fine. This year it looks like a field.” I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, … Read more
Most homeowners put a lot of thought into their first cut of the spring. They watch the lawn coming back, they wait for the right moment, they get the mower tuned up. The last cut of the season gets almost no attention at all. Someone calls it done sometime in October, parks the mower in … Read more
Someone called me last week asking for a quote on a one-time grass cut. Decent sized lot, hadn’t been touched in about three weeks. When I gave him the number, he paused. “That’s actually not bad. I was going to rent a mower from Home Depot and just do it myself.” I told him to … Read more
I want to tell you something that might sting a little. After five years of cutting grass on residential and commercial properties all across Greater Sudbury, I can pull up to almost any property and tell within two minutes whether the homeowner is mowing it properly. Not because I’m looking for problems — but because … Read more