By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 June is the busiest month for questions. Not just for work — for questions from homeowners who are watching their lawns closely for the first time since winter and noticing things they don’t understand or that … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’m a lawn care company, not an arborist. Trees aren’t my primary area of expertise and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. But I spend a lot of time working on Sudbury lawns that are struggling … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I cut grass for a living. Which means that when I get home from a full day of lawn care across Greater Sudbury, the last thing I feel like doing is spending an hour on my … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 About a third of the residential properties I service in Greater Sudbury have dogs. And on almost every single one of them, the same three spots come up — the same three areas that the homeowner … Read more
I don’t talk about this often. Most of what I write here is about lawns — soil, roots, drainage, the specific challenges of keeping grass alive and healthy in Greater Sudbury. That’s my work and I’m genuinely interested in it. But I think there’s something worth saying about the business side of things. About what … Read more
When a serious hailstorm rolls through Greater Sudbury, the calls start coming in fast. Usually within 24 hours. Homeowners are standing in their yards looking at grass that’s been shredded, flattened, and bruised by ice pellets the size of marbles or bigger, and they want to know: is it dead, can it recover, and what … Read more
I’ve had the same kind of conversation dozens of times. Homeowner has lived in Sudbury for twenty, thirty, sometimes forty years. They’ve maintained their own lawn the whole time. They know the city, they know the winters, they know what they’re dealing with. And then I tell them one of these things and they go … Read more
I’ve been doing this long enough to notice something that I don’t hear talked about anywhere — not in the lawn care content online, not by other contractors, not in the advice homeowners pass to each other over the fence. There’s a problem sitting underneath almost every struggling Sudbury lawn I visit, and nobody has … Read more
Walden is one of those areas of Greater Sudbury that has its own character. The lots tend to be larger than what you find closer to the city core. There are more mature trees. The properties have a certain age to them — a lot of the housing stock goes back several decades — and … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 She called me in April of last year. Said she wanted to talk about lawn care for her property. Standard enough opening. Then she said something I hadn’t heard before: “I’ve been watching you work on … Read more