When I started Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in May 2020, I knew what I knew — which was a combination of formal knowledge, things I’d learned from other people in the industry, and principles I’d absorbed from whatever resources I’d been able to find before my first season. Five years and hundreds of properties … Read more
When I started Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in May 2020, I did what most people do when they want to learn something quickly: I watched a lot of YouTube. Lawn care channels, landscaping content, turf management videos — hours of it, through the winter before my first season and into the early months of … Read more
I turn down work. Not a lot of it. But regularly enough that it’s worth talking about — because the situations where I tell a homeowner not to hire me are also the situations where homeowners are most likely to waste money on professional lawn care that won’t do what they’re expecting. I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Here’s a pattern I’ve noticed over five years of running this business. The calls I get on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings are often from homeowners who spent the previous evening searching for answers. They walked their lawn after dinner. Something looked … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 I was driving back from a job in Val Caron on a Wednesday afternoon last summer when I slowed down at a property on a residential street and almost kept going. The lawn stopped me. Not because it was dramatically bad … Read more
I turn down work. Not a lot of it. But regularly enough that it’s worth talking about — because the situations where I tell a homeowner not to hire me are also the situations where homeowners are most likely to waste money on professional lawn care that won’t do what they’re expecting. I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, … Read more
`Ryan Lingenfelter reflecting on lawn care advice given to Greater Sudbury Ontario homeowners — Cutting Edge Lawn and Landscaping Garson` I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. I want to tell you about the moment I realized I’d been getting something wrong. Not catastrophically wrong. Not wrong in … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. I want to tell you about a quote call in Lively last summer that I’ve thought about a lot since it happened. The homeowner had called me in late June. She’d found me through a neighbour’s recommendation. She wanted a quote … Read more