By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 She said it in the first thirty seconds of the call. “I want to be upfront with you — I’ve basically given up on the backyard. I’m just calling because my neighbour kept insisting I try … Read more
I’ve worked on a lot of lawns in Greater Sudbury over the past few years. Most of them I remember in a general way — the neighbourhood, the property size, the main issues we dealt with. A handful I remember specifically because something about the job was different or difficult or taught me something I … Read more
I don’t write about failure often. Not because I don’t experience it — anyone running a small business in a seasonal industry like lawn care does — but because it’s easier to write about the jobs that went well, the lawns that recovered, the customers who sent nice messages. But I’ve been thinking about a … Read more
Every spring, usually sometime in the last week of April or the first week of May, I get a text from a homeowner in the Sudbury area. Same person, every year. It says something like: “Hey Ryan, just checking in — are you taking on customers again this season?” He’s been sending that text for … Read more
There’s a property in Garson I worked on for two full seasons before I finally understood what was actually happening. I want to write about it because I think it illustrates something important — something that I see get missed on difficult lawns across Greater Sudbury, and something that would have saved this homeowner a … Read more
There’s a street in Greater Sudbury — I won’t name it specifically, but it’s a residential road with about a dozen properties on it — where I’ve been cutting multiple lawns since I started this business. Same street, same climate, same soil type, same everything. Three years ago, those lawns all looked roughly the same. … Read more
Walk into any hardware store or garden centre in Sudbury and you’ll find a wall of grass seed. Bags with pictures of thick green lawns, marketing terms like “fast germinating” and “all-purpose” and “sun and shade mix.” Most of it will grow. Some of it will grow well. And a surprising amount of it is … Read more
I’m going to give you the honest version of this — not the version a lawn care company would normally give you, where the answer conveniently always points toward hiring someone. The truth is: for some Sudbury homeowners with some properties in some situations, doing it yourself is the right call. And for others, hiring … Read more
I’ve been doing this long enough that most questions I get on a property visit are ones I’ve heard before. How often should I water? Why does my lawn go brown in July? What’s the white stuff growing in the corner? I’ve got answers ready because I’ve seen the same situations repeat across hundreds of … Read more
It was a Tuesday night in late July. I’d had a full day — five properties, drove across half of Greater Sudbury, got home around seven. By eleven I was done. Phone on the nightstand, ready to be off for the night. Then a text came in. It was from a customer I’d been cutting … Read more