How Long Can Grass Be Covered Before It Dies? What Sudbury Homeowners Need to Know

dead yellow grass patch on Sudbury Ontario lawn after being covered by tarp or debris

Someone called me last summer after pulling up a tarp they’d left on their backyard lawn for about three weeks. They wanted to know if the yellow, flat, matted grass underneath was going to come back on its own — or if they’d killed it for good. It’s a question I get more often than … Read more

The Worst Lawn I’ve Seen in Greater Sudbury This Season — And What Was Actually Causing It

Severely damaged residential lawn in Greater Sudbury Ontario assessed by Cutting Edge Lawn and Landscaping

I’ve seen a lot of lawns in rough shape across Greater Sudbury. After six years doing this work, you develop a kind of internal scale — you walk a property and you immediately know whether it’s a bad lawn, a very bad lawn, or something that genuinely stops you in your tracks. This one stopped … Read more

What Happens to Your Lawn If You Skip One Full Season of Maintenance in Sudbury

Overgrown neglected lawn on a residential property in Greater Sudbury Ontario

Every spring I get a call that goes roughly like this. “Ryan, we had a crazy year. Nobody cut the lawn. Nobody did anything. It’s… bad. I don’t even know where to start.” Life happens. A health issue, a work stretch that took over everything, a summer where the family was somewhere else and the … Read more