Seasonal lawn support
A Gungahlin lawn year, season by season
Winter comes first in Gungahlin’s calendar because it shapes everything else. Frosts start around May and run to September, the couch, kikuyu and buffalo lawns shut down and go straw-coloured, and tall fescue is the only common lawn that keeps ticking over and wanting a cut. September and October are the wettest months of the year, the soil finally warms past the mid-teens, and every dormant lawn wakes at once: this is when a mid-October feed and the first close mow pay off. From November the hot westerlies arrive across the open, low-tree streets, and summer turns into a watering job as much as a mowing one; ACT water rules mean sprinklers stay off between 9am and 6pm during daylight saving. Autumn brings a second flush, a potassium-rich feed before the late-April frosts, and the last chance to overseed a fescue lawn or lay new turf before the cold. Our schedule moves with those seasons rather than running the same interval all year.
We mow right across the Gungahlin district — Gungahlin, Amaroo, Bonner, Casey, Crace, Forde, Franklin, Harrison, Mitchell, Moncrieff, Ngunnawal, Nicholls, Palmerston and Taylor — and across the wider Canberra northside. Nearby? Ask and we will sort a local operator.
