By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 The call came in April. A man from the Sudbury area — I’ll call him Mark — introduced himself and said he’d heard about my company from a neighbour. He had a question that wasn’t the … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 Walk any residential street in Greater Sudbury and look at the lawns carefully. Not the main open sections — the middle of the front yard, the visible backyard through the gate. Look at the edges. The … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 For the first couple of years I was doing this work in Sudbury, I recommended robotic lawn mowers to homeowners who asked about equipment upgrades. The pitch made sense to me at the time — consistent … Read more
I get asked this question a lot, usually by homeowners who are either justifying a riding mower purchase they’re already leaning toward, or trying to figure out if their current setup is actually working against them. Both are fair conversations to have, and I want to give you the straight answer rather than the one … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’ve walked a lot of properties in Greater Sudbury. Most initial visits follow a similar rhythm — I arrive, introduce myself, walk the lawn, ask a few questions, form an assessment. The homeowner tells me what … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I went to quote a property in the Sudbury area expecting a standard initial visit. Walk the lawn, assess the conditions, talk through what I’d recommend, give a price. What happened instead was that the homeowner … Read more
Every couple of summers, Sudbury gets a real dry stretch. Three, four, sometimes five weeks with little to no rain. And every time it happens, I notice the same thing driving around to job sites: some lawns turn brown and crispy within days. Others — sitting right next door, same sun exposure, same general climate … Read more
Homeowners call me about dead grass. They call me about weeds, about bare patches, about a lawn that just won’t thicken up no matter what they try. What a lot of them don’t call me about — because they don’t know to — is drainage. And yet drainage is sitting underneath a huge number of … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’ve been working in both Capreol and Garson long enough to notice a pattern that surprised me when I first picked up on it. Drive through Capreol in late July and the residential lawns hold their … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 Every year around the third week of July I start getting calls. The lawn is going brown. The grass looks pale and stressed. A neighbour’s lawn looks fine but theirs doesn’t. What’s happening? And every year, … Read more