I have a habit that every new client notices eventually, usually on the first property walk. Before I look at the lawn in any detail — before I check mowing height, before I look at the edges, before I walk the bare patches — I look at the neighbour’s downspout. Sometimes both neighbours. Sometimes the … Read more
I got a call last summer from a homeowner in Azilda who was confused and frustrated. She’d been watering her lawn every single day since early June — sometimes twice a day during the hottest stretches — and the lawn was getting worse, not better. Patches that had looked thin in spring were now fully … Read more
I service properties in both Val Caron and Chelmsford regularly. They’re fifteen minutes apart on Highway 69. They’re both part of Greater Sudbury. They both have the same general climate, the same municipal water, the same general access to the same products from the same stores. And they are not the same lawn care environment. … Read more
Every spring and summer I get calls from homeowners who bought sod, laid it themselves, and are calling me two weeks later because it’s not taking. The problem is almost never how they laid it. The problem is almost always what they loaded into the truck at the farm — sod that was cut too … Read more
When I started Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in May 2020, I knew what I knew — which was a combination of formal knowledge, things I’d learned from other people in the industry, and principles I’d absorbed from whatever resources I’d been able to find before my first season. Five years and hundreds of properties … Read more
I started Cutting Edge Lawn and Landscaping in Garson in 2020. That’s six full seasons of working on properties across Greater Sudbury — Garson, Val Caron, Hanmer, Lively, Chelmsford, Azilda, Capreol — through whatever each season decided to deliver. Some of those seasons were straightforward. Some weren’t. 2026 is somewhere in the middle, but it … Read more
About one in every ten calls I get for a quote in Sudbury ends with me not taking the job. Not because the property is too difficult. Not because I’m too busy. Because after the initial conversation or the property walk, I’ve concluded that taking the job would not produce a result that satisfies either … Read more
Sudbury gets hail. Not every summer and not everywhere at once, but when a serious hailstorm comes through Greater Sudbury — the kind that leaves dents in cars and strips leaves off trees — it leaves a lawn that looks significantly worse than it did an hour before the storm. I’ve assessed properties the day … Read more
I work on rental properties across Greater Sudbury. Single-family rentals, duplexes, small multi-unit properties — all of them have one thing in common during summer, and it’s not the lawn condition. It’s the conversation happening between the person who owns the property and the person who lives in it about whose job the lawn is. … Read more
Every few months I get a call from a homeowner who just moved into a new build in one of Sudbury’s newer subdivisions — Falconbridge, South End, the newer sections out toward Chelmsford or Hanmer — and they’re frustrated with their lawn in a specific way. They did everything the builder told them to do. … Read more