A few weeks ago I got a call from a homeowner in Lively. He’d been away most of the summer — work contract out of town, came back in late August — and he wanted me to come out and take a look at his lawn before he decided what to do with it. I … Read more
My first customer in Sudbury was a retired couple in Garson. Nice people. Tidy house. They’d been trying to get their backyard lawn looking decent for three years before they called me. They’d fertilized it. Overseeded it twice. Watered it all summer. And every year, by August, it looked almost exactly the same as it … Read more
People ask me all the time what’s actually possible with a Sudbury lawn in one season. Not a lawn that’s been professionally managed for five years. Not a fresh sod installation on perfect topsoil. A real property — compacted soil, a few bare patches, maybe some thatch buildup — that gets the full treatment from … Read more
I drive a lot of roads in Greater Sudbury. Garson, Hanmer, Val Caron, Lively, Chelmsford, Azilda, Capreol, the South End, New Sudbury — I’ve worked properties in all of them, and after a few years of doing this I’ve started to notice that each area has its own character when it comes to lawn problems. … Read more
I say this not to be dramatic, and not to make excuses — but because it’s genuinely true and it matters for how you approach lawn care here: maintaining a good lawn in Sudbury is harder than in most places in Ontario. Homeowners who move here from southern Ontario, or who compare their results to … Read more
One of the most common things I hear from homeowners across Greater Sudbury is some version of: “I never really know what I should be doing with my lawn and when.” They fertilize when they remember. They aerate if someone mentions it. They overseed after a bad summer, maybe. The result is a lawn that … Read more
I’ve been working in Garson since I started this business, and over the years you notice things. Which properties are consistent. Which lawns hold their colour through a dry July when the neighbours go brown. Which homeowners seem to get better results year after year without doing anything obviously dramatic. There’s one property in particular … Read more
This is one of the most common questions I get in April and early May — and it’s also one of the hardest to answer with a single number, because the honest answer depends on what your property actually looks like. That said, I know vague answers are frustrating. “It depends” is not useful when … Read more
When people think about Greater Sudbury, they usually picture the main city — New Sudbury, the South End, Garson, Hanmer. But Greater Sudbury is a big municipality, and some of the communities at the edges of it are genuinely different in ways that matter for lawn care. Capreol and Azilda are two that I’ve been … Read more
Last July we had a stretch where the temperature hit 31 degrees and stayed there for about a week. No rain. Humid. The kind of heat that sits on everything and doesn’t move. I was out on properties every day that week, and my phone was going off constantly. Texts, missed calls, voicemails. Homeowners across … Read more