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