I’m not a soil scientist. I want to be upfront about that. But I’ve pushed a screwdriver into Sudbury soil on hundreds of properties and watched what happens. I’ve seen the same clay come out of the aeration machine on a Val Caron property that came out of a Garson property three kilometres away. I’ve … Read more
I’m going to write this one from a slightly unusual angle — as someone who shows up in those search results, explaining what those results actually are, what they’re good at, and where they fall short when you’re trying to find someone you can actually trust with your property in Sudbury. Because “lawn care near … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Here’s a pattern I’ve noticed over five years of running this business. The calls I get on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings are often from homeowners who spent the previous evening searching for answers. They walked their lawn after dinner. Something looked … Read more
I’ve been thinking about writing this one for a while, and I want to be upfront about the format — this isn’t really a how-to article. It’s more of a window into how I think about the work we do, framed as the things I’d genuinely want every person who’s ever worked with me at … Read more
I’ve had a version of this question come up enough times now that I figured it was worth actually testing properly instead of just giving my gut answer. “Should I get a battery mower or stick with gas? Everyone online says battery is the future but I don’t know if that’s true up here.” The … Read more
I want to write this one a little differently than most of my articles, because I think it’s a conversation that doesn’t happen enough. A good number of the properties I work on in Garson, Val Caron, and around Greater Sudbury belong to retirees — people who’ve lived in this city for decades, raised families … Read more
I want to tell you about a hiring decision I made a couple of years ago that a lot of people thought was a strange one at the time. I hired someone who, for years before that, had been the person most likely to point out everything I’d done wrong on a job. Not in … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Capreol is the northernmost community in Greater Sudbury — sitting on the Vermilion River, about 30 kilometres north of Sudbury proper, on terrain that sits closer to Canadian Shield bedrock than almost anywhere else in the city. I’ve worked properties in … Read more
I want to tell you about a property in Garson — close to where I live, actually — that had a problem for eight years before anyone figured out what it actually was. Three different companies had worked on this lawn over those eight years. Aeration, seeding, sod patches, fertilizer programs — all of it. … Read more
Partway through last season, a customer in Val Caron called me to say she was going with someone else. She’d been with us for two seasons — standard biweekly cutting, consistent, no issues on either end. I asked her what drove the decision. “They quoted me $20 less per cut.” I thanked her, wished her … Read more