The 3 Trees in Sudbury Yards That Are Slowly Killing the Grass Underneath

Dead grass ring around the base of a mature tree on a Sudbury Ontario residential property

By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’ve written before about the question every Sudbury homeowner should ask before planting a tree. This is the more specific follow-up — the actual species I see causing the most damage to the grass around them, … Read more

I Tracked Every Single Lawn Question I Got Asked in June — Here’s What Sudbury Wants to Know

Ryan Lingenfelter reviewing notes of lawn care questions from Sudbury Ontario homeowners in June

By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 June is the busiest month for questions. Not just for work — for questions from homeowners who are watching their lawns closely for the first time since winter and noticing things they don’t understand or that … Read more

The One Question Every Sudbury Homeowner Should Ask Before Planting a New Tree

Sudbury Ontario homeowner planning where to plant a new tree considering lawn impact

By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’m a lawn care company, not an arborist. Trees aren’t my primary area of expertise and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. But I spend a lot of time working on Sudbury lawns that are struggling … Read more

3 Shortcuts I Use on My Own Sudbury Lawn That Save Me 4 Hours Every Month

Ryan Lingenfelter maintaining his own Sudbury Ontario lawn using efficient time saving techniques

By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I cut grass for a living. Which means that when I get home from a full day of lawn care across Greater Sudbury, the last thing I feel like doing is spending an hour on my … Read more

The Sudbury Lawn Problem Nobody Names But Everybody Has

Sudbury Ontario lawn with unnamed underlying problem affecting grass health across the property

I’ve been doing this long enough to notice something that I don’t hear talked about anywhere — not in the lawn care content online, not by other contractors, not in the advice homeowners pass to each other over the fence. There’s a problem sitting underneath almost every struggling Sudbury lawn I visit, and nobody has … Read more

A Sudbury Customer Hired Me Because She Saw How I Treated the Last Property

Sudbury Ontario homeowner watching neighbour's lawn being professionally maintained from across the street

By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 She called me in April of last year. Said she wanted to talk about lawn care for her property. Standard enough opening. Then she said something I hadn’t heard before: “I’ve been watching you work on … Read more

A Sudbury Father Asked Me to Train His Son for One Summer — Here’s How It Ended

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

The Lawn Spot Every Sudbury Homeowner Ignores Until It’s Too Late

Neglected lawn edge along driveway on a Sudbury Ontario residential property showing damage

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

The One Piece of Lawn Equipment I Stopped Recommending to Sudbury Homeowners — And Why

Lawn equipment being assessed for suitability for Sudbury Ontario residential lawn conditions

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

A Sudbury Customer Pulled Out an Old Notebook With 30 Years of Yard Notes

Sudbury Ontario homeowner showing Ryan Lingenfelter an old notebook with decades of yard observations

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