The call came in on a Wednesday afternoon. A realtor, not the homeowner, and she didn’t sound calm. Listing photos were booked for Friday morning, the sellers had been out of town for three weeks, and the front lawn looked, in her words, “like nobody lives there.” She needed it presentable in under 48 hours … Read more
Two weeks after I take on a new customer, my phone reminds me to call them. Not text, not email — call. It’s been part of how I run Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping since almost the beginning, and it’s one of those things clients never ask for but almost always mention later as the … Read more
I pull into a driveway for a quote almost every day. And before I’ve shaken anyone’s hand, before I’ve asked a single question, I already have a pretty good idea of who I’m about to meet. Not because I’m psychic. Because a lawn is one of the most honest things a person owns. It can’t … Read more
I want to tell you about a job in Lively that, halfway through, had the homeowner texting me photos asking what the hell was going on. The lawn looked destroyed. Raked-up bare patches everywhere. Soil exposed. The nice-looking green parts they’d had before — gone. And from where they were standing, it looked like we’d … Read more
People sometimes expect me to show up with something more impressive than what’s actually in my back pocket on a first property walk. No moisture meter, no soil probe kit, no app. A standard flathead screwdriver, the kind sitting in most garages already or available for under $15 at any hardware store in Garson or … Read more
There’s a stretch of streets in an older part of Greater Sudbury, built decades ago, where the lawns still look the way they probably did when the houses were brand new — dense, green, unfussy. No fancy irrigation systems, no premium seed blends sitting in the garage, nothing that looks like it was bought from … Read more
Two properties I drive past regularly on the same street in Hanmer — similar lot size, same builder, same exposure to sun. One has held green and dense through every dry stretch this summer. The other has gone patchy and brown twice already, and it’s only July. I ran the math on this out loud … Read more
About six weeks ago, Dana — who handles most of our customer communication and scheduling — suggested I start actually writing down what people call about. Not to track numbers for a business reason, but because she’d noticed that certain calls kept coming in around the same topics and she thought if I looked at … Read more
I’ve installed sod on over 200 properties across Greater Sudbury since 2020. Garson, Val Caron, Hanmer, Lively, Chelmsford, Azilda, Capreol — different soil conditions, different lot sizes, different terrain, different times of year. And across all of those installs, one mistake accounts for more sod failures than every other cause combined. Not poor soil prep … Read more
Last summer I quoted a property in Chelmsford, walked the whole thing with the homeowner, and at the end of the conversation told him I wasn’t the right call for what he was actually trying to do. Not a price disagreement, not a scheduling conflict — I genuinely thought the plan he had in mind … Read more