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
Walk into any hardware store or garden centre in Sudbury and you’ll find a wall of grass seed. Bags with pictures of thick green lawns, marketing terms like “fast germinating” and “all-purpose” and “sun and shade mix.” Most of it will grow. Some of it will grow well. And a surprising amount of it is … Read more
I’ve been doing this long enough that most questions I get on a property visit are ones I’ve heard before. How often should I water? Why does my lawn go brown in July? What’s the white stuff growing in the corner? I’ve got answers ready because I’ve seen the same situations repeat across hundreds of … Read more
It was a Tuesday night in late July. I’d had a full day — five properties, drove across half of Greater Sudbury, got home around seven. By eleven I was done. Phone on the nightstand, ready to be off for the night. Then a text came in. It was from a customer I’d been cutting … Read more
A few weeks ago I got a call from a homeowner in Lively. He’d been away most of the summer — work contract out of town, came back in late August — and he wanted me to come out and take a look at his lawn before he decided what to do with it. I … Read more
My first customer in Sudbury was a retired couple in Garson. Nice people. Tidy house. They’d been trying to get their backyard lawn looking decent for three years before they called me. They’d fertilized it. Overseeded it twice. Watered it all summer. And every year, by August, it looked almost exactly the same as it … Read more
People ask me all the time what’s actually possible with a Sudbury lawn in one season. Not a lawn that’s been professionally managed for five years. Not a fresh sod installation on perfect topsoil. A real property — compacted soil, a few bare patches, maybe some thatch buildup — that gets the full treatment from … Read more
One of the most common things I hear from homeowners across Greater Sudbury is some version of: “I never really know what I should be doing with my lawn and when.” They fertilize when they remember. They aerate if someone mentions it. They overseed after a bad summer, maybe. The result is a lawn that … Read more
I’ve been working in Garson since I started this business, and over the years you notice things. Which properties are consistent. Which lawns hold their colour through a dry July when the neighbours go brown. Which homeowners seem to get better results year after year without doing anything obviously dramatic. There’s one property in particular … Read more
Last July we had a stretch where the temperature hit 31 degrees and stayed there for about a week. No rain. Humid. The kind of heat that sits on everything and doesn’t move. I was out on properties every day that week, and my phone was going off constantly. Texts, missed calls, voicemails. Homeowners across … Read more