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
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
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’m a lawn care company, but a meaningful part of what I see across Greater Sudbury properties involves the ground around the lawn — driveways, walkways, the transition zones between hard surfaces and grass. And there’s … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 A homeowner in Hanmer called me last season. She’d gotten three quotes for weekly grass cutting. One was $45 per cut. One was $62. One was $85. Same property, same service description, three companies, forty dollar … Read more
There’s a question I get asked more than almost any other, and for the first three years of running Cutting Edge Lawn I gave a version of the same non-answer every time. The question is: “Should I just do my lawn myself, or is it worth hiring someone?” I avoided it because I’m not a … Read more
I can usually tell within the first five minutes of walking a property whether it’s had consistent ownership and consistent care — or whether it’s changed hands a few times and each owner started over from scratch. It’s not always obvious from the street. A lawn that’s had three owners in ten years can look … Read more
I hear this one every fall from homeowners who had a busy year, a tight budget, or just decided to skip aeration once and see what happened. “It’s just one year. The lawn will be fine.” I understand that logic. Aeration doesn’t feel urgent the way a dead patch or a drainage problem feels urgent. … Read more
Most new homeowners in Greater Sudbury do the same thing with their lawn in the first year. They mow it. They water it when it looks dry. They maybe pick up a bag of fertilizer at Canadian Tire and throw it down sometime in May. And then they wonder why, twelve months later, the lawn … Read more