The Fox Mowing gentleman was so polite and did a brilliant job on my yard. I have already recommended him to my neighbours.
Fox Mowing ACT has local operators working the 1966 streets of Chifley, from the houses under Mount Taylor to the flats and units near the Eggleston Crescent shops.
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Chifley, one of the first suburbs settled when the Woden Valley opened up in 1966. The suburb was gazetted on 12 May that year and named after Ben Chifley, Prime Minister from 1945 to 1949, and its streets carry the names of scientists and academics. It is a compact place, 1.6 square kilometres at around 618 metres above sea level, with Mount Taylor standing behind it, Hindmarsh Drive and Melrose Drive on two sides, and Pearce, Lyons and Phillip next door. Postcode 2606 covers the lot.
The original build put 795 houses and 156 flats on the ground for about 3,000 people, and most of those houses are still there, which means most of the lawns are too. A Chifley lawn is typically old couch or kikuyu that has been mowed for decades, often by the same family, sometimes let go a bit between owners. Our operators know the difference between a lawn that has simply gone straw-coloured for winter and one that needs a proper rebuild, and they know which streets closest to Mount Taylor need a harder tidy before summer.
Book your free Chifley quoteFrom a courtyard behind the Eggleston Crescent shops to a corner block on Maclaurin Crescent, here is what a Chifley round usually involves.
Fortnightly through the growing season, monthly or on call through winter, with edges done along paths and kerbs each time. Our lawn mowing and lawn edging pages spell out what a standard visit covers.
Lawns laid in the late sixties have thatch, old wear tracks and the odd hollow. We mow couch a touch lower than fescue, dethatch when it needs it, and use top dressing to level the dips.
Chifley was built with 156 flats alongside its houses. Strip lawns, common areas and the grass between blocks get a tidy, sensible price and a regular slot, whoever manages the building.
The streets closest to the nature park carry longer grass and more seed heads in a wet spring. We keep the back fence line short, clear the seed heads before they dry off, and run a proper clean-up before the hot westerlies arrive.
Bindii wants a pre-emergent in late May and winter grass shows as bright green clumps in a dormant lawn. Our bindii and lawn weeds guides cover the timing.
A couch lawn woken up in mid-October with the right feed, then given a potassium-heavy feed in April, holds its colour longer at both ends of the year. Our fertilising page explains the schedule.
Chifley gardens were planted by the first owners in the late sixties, and plenty of them are still shaped by those choices: hedges along the side fence, beds around the front path, a tree that has long outgrown the corner it was put in. Fox Mowing ACT operators handle hedging and pruning, weeding, garden clean-ups, mulching and green waste removal from $70 a visit.
A lot of the work here is bringing an older garden back to a size one person can manage, which is the usual request from retirees staying put and from renovators who have just bought in and found a jungle. We cut hedges hard in the right season, lift canopies so the lawn under them gets light again, and mulch beds before the November heat. If the house is going to market, a pre-sale tidy is a cheap way to make a 1966 block read as cared for.
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Starting prices are the same on every Chifley street, and a local operator confirms the number once they have seen the grass. The full pricing guide lists every service.
| Lawn service | Guide price from | Typical inclusions |
|---|---|---|
| Small maintained lawn — mow, edge & blow | From $50 | Courtyards, unit strips and small lawns kept on a regular schedule, with easy access. |
| Medium to large — mow, edges & blow | From $70-$150+ | Front and back mowed, edges and whipper snipping along fences and paths, then paths and driveway blown clean. |
| Gardening basic visit | From $70 | Hedge trims, pruning, bed weeding and green waste taken away, priced to the size of the garden. |
| Overgrown lawn recovery | From $100-$250+ | Long grass after a wet spring or a change of owner; several passes, catcher work and a full tidy. |
| Acreage / ride-on / slashing | Quoted on site | Not common in Chifley itself, but available for larger properties elsewhere in the district that need ride-on gear. |
Important: These are Chifley starting guide prices. The final quote depends on lawn size, grass height, how much thatch has built up, access to the back yard and how regularly the job is booked.
A quick onsite look means the number matches your lawn rather than a district average.
Operators based in the Woden Valley, quoting lawns they can drive past on the way home.
Our Chifley operators also cover Pearce, Lyons, Phillip and Mawson, so they know what a 1966 couch lawn under Mount Taylor does in each season.
Small maintained lawns from $50, garden visits from $70, and anything overgrown or unusual priced to the work and agreed before we start.
Every operator carries full insurance and a current police check, which matters for landlords, strata managers and older residents living alone.
Edges trimmed, clippings dealt with, paths and driveway blown off. The block looks mowed, not just shortened.
Weekly, fortnightly, monthly or one-off, timed around work at Woden, school pick-ups and inspection dates.
Call 1800 FOX MOW or use the form. For a straightforward mow we can often price it from the kerb.
Chifley sits at just over 600 metres and gets the full Canberra winter: frosts from about May to September, hard ones in June, July and August, and the old couch and kikuyu lawns shut down and go straw-coloured until spring. There is nothing wrong with them. Fescue lawns, common on the shaded south sides of houses, keep growing slowly and still want a cut. September and October are the wettest months of the year and the soil only warms past 14 degrees in mid-October, which is when we start the regular rounds in earnest and put down the first feed. Summer brings hot north-westerlies and days in the mid-30s, and the water rules apply: no sprinklers between 9 am and 6 pm during daylight saving. Late summer is the last chance to lay warm-season new turf while the soil is warm; autumn is for top dressing a tired lawn, overseeding fescue in April and getting a potassium feed on before the late-April frosts.
We mow right across the Woden Valley — Chifley, Curtin, Farrer, Garran, Hughes, Isaacs, Lyons, Mawson, O’Malley, Pearce, Phillip and Weston — and across the wider Woden Valley area. Nearby? Ask and we will sort a local operator.
The Fox Mowing gentleman was so polite and did a brilliant job on my yard. I have already recommended him to my neighbours.
They were very accommodating to my tight deadline for the initial work that I have decided to make it a permanent mowing job every fortnight. Our yard has never looked better. Great people, great experience. Would highly recommend them.
What a great company. Its really refreshing to get a mowing job done where you as a person feel looked after. Will use them again on an ongoing basis. Please try them, you will be glad you did.
My initial mowing job was quite a difficult task for the person from Fox Mowing as the grass was tall. However, the skill and patience he showed was admirable. He took his time and made sure that the yard was brought to its original glory days. Cannot recommend them highly enough. They truly are a cut above the rest.
Fox gave me a quote, made an arrangement, set the time and date, and was here on time and did what we discussed. Would use Fox again for sure.
Chris was very accommodating to my tight deadline. Extremely happy with both the customer service and the work undertaken.
Lawn mowing in Chifley starts from $50 for a small, regularly maintained lawn. Most full 1966 blocks with front and back lawns come in between $70 and $150+ for a mow, edges and blow-down, gardening visits start from $70, and an overgrown lawn is treated as a recovery job from $100 to $250+. The Chifley operator doing the job confirms the exact figure once they have seen the lawn.
Most Chifley lawns are couch, kikuyu or a mix of the two, because the suburb was built in 1966 and that is what was laid then. It matters because both go dormant and lose colour from about May to September, tolerate a lower cut than fescue and buffalo, and build thatch over the decades, so we mow them to suit and dethatch when the layer gets spongy.
Yes, a little. Blocks on the Mount Taylor side of Chifley tend to carry more seed heads and long grass along the back boundary in a wet spring, and the 2003 bushfires reached the Mount Taylor reserve, so keeping that grass short before summer is worth doing. We cut boundaries hard in November and again after the first heatwave.
Yes. Hedging, pruning, bed weeding, mulching, garden clean-ups and green waste removal start from $70 a visit in Chifley, and most customers have the lawn and garden done by the same operator in one booking. Older gardens that have outgrown their owners are a common job here.
Yes. Chifley was built with 156 flats alongside its houses, and strip lawns, common areas and unit courtyards are regular work for our operators. We can deal with a strata manager, an agent or an owner directly, and nobody needs to be home for a mow.
Call 1800 369 669 or fill in the form on this page and a local Fox Mowing ACT operator will ring you back the same working day. Most Chifley mowing jobs can be priced from the street; gardening and recovery jobs usually get a quick look first.