I want to be careful how I say this because I don’t like talking about clients’ properties in a way that feels disrespectful. The people who end up with severely damaged lawns usually didn’t get there on purpose. Life gets busy. Health issues come up. Priorities shift. Properties get neglected not because the owner doesn’t … Read more
Most lawn companies don’t turn down work. I understand why — this is a business, and saying no to a paying job feels counterintuitive. But I’ve turned down jobs before. Not many, but a few. And every time I’ve done it, it’s been for the same reason: the timing or the conditions weren’t right, and … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. My phone rang at 7:04 in the morning on a Tuesday in late June. It was a customer in Val Caron. I’d installed about 1,400 square feet of sod at her property two weeks earlier. The install had gone well — … Read more
One of the most common things I hear on first calls is some version of: “I’m not even sure what I need — I just know my yard is a mess and I want it sorted out.” That’s completely fair. “Landscaping” is one of those words that means different things depending on who you ask. … Read more
I want to tell you about a call I got last spring from a homeowner in Val Caron. Her name is Sandra. She’d been dealing with the same lawn situation for four years — patchy, thin, half-dead by July every single summer. She’d tried seed twice. She’d tried fertilizer. She’d watered religiously one summer and … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. I want to tell you about a property in Hanmer. The homeowner — I’ll call him Dave — called me in late April. He’d bought the house two years earlier. The lawn had looked decent when they moved in. First winter, … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Every spring, I have a version of this conversation at least a dozen times. A homeowner calls me. Their lawn is patchy, thin, or just plain dead in sections. They’ve already done some research. They know the two main options. And … Read more
I want to tell you about a property I pulled up to in late May a couple of years ago. The call came in from a homeowner who’d just bought the house the previous fall. He hadn’t seen the lawn in summer — bought it in October when everything looked dormant and okay. By the … Read more
I’m Ryan Lingenfelter, owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. Since 2020, I’ve installed sod on residential and commercial properties all across Greater Sudbury — Garson, Val Caron, Hanmer, Lively, Chelmsford, Azilda, Capreol. I’ve seen fresh sod laid perfectly and I’ve seen sod that was too far gone before it ever touched … Read more
This question comes up more than you’d think. Someone orders sod, the delivery shows up, and then something changes. The ground isn’t ready. The installer can’t make it that day. Life happens. And the sod is sitting there on the pallet in the driveway. “Ryan, how long do I have before this goes bad?” I’m … Read more