By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 From the street, it was one of the best-looking lawns on the block. Even, green, no obvious bare patches, the kind of property that makes you think the homeowner has it figured out. I’d driven past … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I get this call or message regularly across Greater Sudbury: a homeowner has noticed tree roots breaking through the surface of their lawn — visible ridges, sometimes thick woody roots, sometimes a network of smaller surface … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’ve written before about the question every Sudbury homeowner should ask before planting a tree. This is the more specific follow-up — the actual species I see causing the most damage to the grass around them, … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’m a lawn care company, but a meaningful part of what I see across Greater Sudbury properties involves the ground around the lawn — driveways, walkways, the transition zones between hard surfaces and grass. And there’s … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 A homeowner in Hanmer called me last season. She’d gotten three quotes for weekly grass cutting. One was $45 per cut. One was $62. One was $85. Same property, same service description, three companies, forty dollar … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 June is the busiest month for questions. Not just for work — for questions from homeowners who are watching their lawns closely for the first time since winter and noticing things they don’t understand or that … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I’m a lawn care company, not an arborist. Trees aren’t my primary area of expertise and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. But I spend a lot of time working on Sudbury lawns that are struggling … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 I cut grass for a living. Which means that when I get home from a full day of lawn care across Greater Sudbury, the last thing I feel like doing is spending an hour on my … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 About a third of the residential properties I service in Greater Sudbury have dogs. And on almost every single one of them, the same three spots come up — the same three areas that the homeowner … Read more
By Ryan Lingenfelter — Owner, Cutting Edge Lawn & Landscaping · Garson, Ontario · Serving Greater Sudbury since 2020 She called me in April of last year. Said she wanted to talk about lawn care for her property. Standard enough opening. Then she said something I hadn’t heard before: “I’ve been watching you work on … Read more