This past summer, Greater Sudbury went without meaningful rain for just over two weeks in July. Not unusual for us — most years have at least one dry stretch that runs ten days to two weeks through the middle of summer. But this one hit harder than most because it came after a dry June … Read more
Every July I get at least a handful of calls from Sudbury homeowners who are convinced their lawn is dead. The lawn is brown. Not patchy brown — fully brown, the kind where you walk across it and the grass crunches underfoot and there’s no green visible anywhere in the full-sun sections. They’ve already started … Read more
This past summer, Greater Sudbury went without meaningful rain for just over two weeks in July. Not unusual for us — most years have at least one dry stretch that runs ten days to two weeks through the middle of summer. But this one hit harder than most because it came after a dry June … Read more
I’ve worked on a lot of Sudbury properties that share a fence line or a property line with another property I’ve also worked on. Sometimes in the same season. Sometimes one after the other on the same morning. And the thing that still catches me, even after 300-plus properties, is how different two lawns can … Read more
Let’s say I bought a house in Sudbury tomorrow. Hanmer, Chelmsford, Garson, wherever. And when I walk the backyard for the first time, I see what I see on a lot of properties I quote — long, patchy grass, bare spots, thatch buildup, maybe some standing water in a low corner, weeds filling in wherever … Read more
I started Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in 2020. Six years in, working lawns across Garson, Hanmer, Val Caron, Chelmsford, Azilda, Lively, Capreol, and Sudbury proper — I have a pretty clear picture now of what’s shifted in this market and what hasn’t moved at all. Some things genuinely have changed. Customer expectations have shifted. … Read more
Ryan here. I want to talk about something that has nothing to do with grass seed or mowing height or drainage — at least not directly. It’s about a phone call I make every single time we take on a new customer, without exception, exactly two weeks after the first visit. Most people are surprised … Read more
Ryan here. There’s a version of this conversation I’ve had more times than I can count, but this one stuck with me more than most. Her name is Carol. She lives in the Minnow Lake area of Greater Sudbury and she’d been through two lawn companies in four years. Not bad experiences — genuinely damaging … Read more
Ryan here. Every time I walk onto a property for the first time, I’m reading the lawn before I’ve even introduced myself properly. Not to judge anyone — I genuinely don’t care what shape the yard is in, that’s literally why I’m there. But a lawn holds information the same way a house does. You … Read more
There’s a question I get asked more than almost any other, and for the first three years of running Cutting Edge Lawn I gave a version of the same non-answer every time. The question is: “Should I just do my lawn myself, or is it worth hiring someone?” I avoided it because I’m not a … Read more