Walden is one of those areas of Greater Sudbury that has its own character. The lots tend to be larger than what you find closer to the city core. There are more mature trees. The properties have a certain age to them — a lot of the housing stock goes back several decades — and … Read more
July is when you really see what a lawn is made of. In May everything looks okay. The grass is coming out of dormancy, everything is green, and even a struggling lawn gets a temporary reprieve from all the moisture and mild temperatures. But July in Sudbury is a different story. By mid-July we’ve usually … Read more
When I started out, I had a fertilizer recommendation I gave almost every customer. Balanced NPK — nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium — applied in spring and again in fall. Standard timing. Standard product. It was what most lawn care advice recommends, and for a while I didn’t question it much. Then I started paying closer attention … Read more
A couple of seasons ago I started keeping notes. Not formal data — just observations I jotted down after customer conversations. Specifically: how much time homeowners estimated they were spending on their lawns every week, and what they were actually doing with that time. I started doing this because I kept hearing the same thing … Read more
There’s a street in Greater Sudbury — I won’t name it specifically, but it’s a residential road with about a dozen properties on it — where I’ve been cutting multiple lawns since I started this business. Same street, same climate, same soil type, same everything. Three years ago, those lawns all looked roughly the same. … Read more