I hear this one every fall from homeowners who had a busy year, a tight budget, or just decided to skip aeration once and see what happened. “It’s just one year. The lawn will be fine.” I understand that logic. Aeration doesn’t feel urgent the way a dead patch or a drainage problem feels urgent. … Read more
Most new homeowners in Greater Sudbury do the same thing with their lawn in the first year. They mow it. They water it when it looks dry. They maybe pick up a bag of fertilizer at Canadian Tire and throw it down sometime in May. And then they wonder why, twelve months later, the lawn … Read more
When a serious hailstorm rolls through Greater Sudbury, the calls start coming in fast. Usually within 24 hours. Homeowners are standing in their yards looking at grass that’s been shredded, flattened, and bruised by ice pellets the size of marbles or bigger, and they want to know: is it dead, can it recover, and what … Read more
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
By Ryan Lingenfelter · Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping, Garson, Ontario · June 2026 When homeowners in Greater Sudbury are getting quotes for lawn care, the conversation almost always comes down to price per visit. One company quotes $80. Another quotes $130. Another quotes $200 for a visit that includes additional services. The obvious choice … Read more
I get asked this question a lot, usually by homeowners who are either justifying a riding mower purchase they’re already leaning toward, or trying to figure out if their current setup is actually working against them. Both are fair conversations to have, and I want to give you the straight answer rather than the one … Read more
Every couple of summers, Sudbury gets a real dry stretch. Three, four, sometimes five weeks with little to no rain. And every time it happens, I notice the same thing driving around to job sites: some lawns turn brown and crispy within days. Others — sitting right next door, same sun exposure, same general climate … Read more
Homeowners call me about dead grass. They call me about weeds, about bare patches, about a lawn that just won’t thicken up no matter what they try. What a lot of them don’t call me about — because they don’t know to — is drainage. And yet drainage is sitting underneath a huge number of … Read more
Hey, I’m Ryan Lingenfelter — owner of Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping in Garson, Ontario. A while back I started asking customers a question I hadn’t asked before. Nothing complicated. Just one sentence, somewhere in the middle of every property walk-through, when we’re talking about what they want done. “What do you actually want from … 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