Professional lawn mowing and gardening in Chisholm

In Chisholm a small lawn that is already kept tidy is mowed from $50, while the more common full-sized block with edges, trimming and a blow-down comes in between $70 and $150+. Gardening starts at $70 a visit, an overgrown Chisholm lawn is priced as recovery work from $100 to $250+, and the local operator settles the exact figure on site before touching anything.

Usually, yes. Chisholm's first houses date from the early 1980s, so many of its couch and kikuyu lawns have had four decades of foot traffic and compaction. Coring in October or March, a top dressing over the low spots, a feed once the soil is warm and a raised mowing height for a season will thicken most of them up. Re-turfing a Chisholm lawn is only worth it where the grass is more weed than turf, and then we lay warm-season turf from late November.

The ones on the higher, rockier ground towards Simpsons Hill on the eastern side of Chisholm, where rhyodacite sits close to the surface and water drains away fast. Those lawns want two or three deep soakings a week before 9 am in summer, up to three in a heatwave, while the flatter blocks nearer Isabella Drive hold moisture better and can go longer between waterings. Everywhere in Chisholm the sprinkler stays off between 9 am and 6 pm during daylight saving.

Yes. Hedge trimming, pruning, weeding, bed clean-ups, mulching and green waste removal start from $70 a visit in Chisholm. Hedges planted in the 1980s here are often tall and woody underneath, so we cut them back hard in late winter and shape them lightly after the spring growth rather than shearing the same line every visit.

Yes. We keep lawns, verges and garden beds tidy for businesses around the Chisholm Group Centre and for landlords with tenanted houses across the suburb, on a fixed schedule with photos sent after each visit. Every Chisholm operator is fully insured and police-checked, so managers can book without being on site.

Call 1800 369 669 or send the form on this page and a Fox Mowing ACT operator from the Tuggeranong area will phone you back the same day. Straightforward Chisholm mowing can be quoted from the kerb; for gardening or a lawn renovation we walk the block with you first.