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 covers Harman, the HMAS Harman naval communications locality in the District of Jerrabomberra, with local operators who service the Defence housing yards and contractor grounds around the base and the neighbouring streets of Oaks Estate and Queanbeyan.
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens around Harman, though we should be straight about what Harman is. The suburb is HMAS Harman, a Royal Australian Navy communications and logistics base in the District of Jerrabomberra with the postcode 2600. Work on the main facility began in early 1939, the station was commissioned as a stone frigate on 1 July 1943, and today the base covers about 2.5 square kilometres, hosts a tri-service Multi-User Depot with Army and Air Force reserve units and cadet units, and has around 970 people working on it. The name is a blend of the surnames of the two officers who proposed it, Commander Neville Harvey and Lieutenant Commander Jack Newman.
What that means for lawns is simple. The grounds inside the wire — the Morgan Dunbar Oval, the Sir Victor Smith Oval, the tennis courts and the cottages and guard houses that were part of the original station — are Defence-managed, and we work there only when a facilities contractor engages us. The mowing and gardening we book directly is on the housing, contractor premises and private yards around the base, and in the neighbouring streets of Oaks Estate and Queanbeyan just to the east, where the same local operators already run their rounds. Harman residents get school preference for Forrest and Red Hill primary schools, Telopea Park School and Narrabundah College, which tells you how much this locality looks toward the inner south for its services, and we treat it the same way.
Book your free Harman quoteFewer private lawns than most suburbs, but the ones near the ovals and along the Oaks Estate side still need cutting through the growing season.
Fortnightly or monthly rounds for the housing yards and small lawns around Harman, with edges on paths and drives and a blow-down at the end. Our lawn mowing and edging pages explain what each visit includes.
Service families posted to Canberra do not always have the gear or the time for a yard. We set up a standing round, keep it going through a deployment and can bill a housing provider directly.
Businesses supporting the base need their frontages and entries kept tidy on a fixed day. Our commercial grounds maintenance covers the lawn, the beds and the verge in one visit.
A posting ends with a march-out inspection. We bring the lawn and garden back to handover standard in one or two visits through our end-of-lease gardening service.
Open ground on the fringe of the base and around contractor yards grows quickly after spring rain. We ride-on mow or slash it, quoted on site by area.
If your address is on the Oaks Estate or Queanbeyan side of Harman, the operators who service those streets are the same people. Ask and we will route you to the right local round.
The private gardens around Harman are modest — screening hedges, a few beds, a strip along the fence — and they suit a straightforward gardening visit from $70: hedging and pruning, weeding, a garden clean-up and green waste taken away. For service families that is usually enough to keep the place at inspection standard without anyone spending their weekend on it.
The District of Jerrabomberra is open, frost-prone country with little tree cover, so beds here go from waterlogged in a wet September to bone dry in a January westerly. A proper mulch in spring is the cheapest fix for both, and it halves the weeding. For contractor premises near the base we keep entry hedges and screening dense and tidy on the same round as the mowing, and for anyone moving on we can time a final garden tidy to the march-out date.
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The same starting prices as everywhere else we work, confirmed on site by a local operator. The full pricing guide lists every service.
| Lawn service | Guide price from | Typical inclusions |
|---|---|---|
| Small maintained lawn — mow, edge & blow | From $50 | The small housing yards and strip lawns around Harman, with straightforward access. |
| Medium to large — mow, edges & blow | From $70-$150+ | Larger yards and contractor frontages: mowing, edges, whipper snipping and a blow-down of paths and drives. |
| Gardening basic visit | From $70 | Hedge shaping, bed weeding, pruning and green waste removal at a house or premises. |
| Overgrown lawn recovery | From $100-$250+ | A yard left untouched through a posting or a wet spring: staged cutting, thatch removal and clean-up. |
| Acreage / ride-on / slashing | Quoted on site | Open ground around contractor yards and the base fringe, walked and quoted before we start. |
Important: These are Harman starting guide prices. The final quote depends on lawn size, access, grass height and how often you book; work inside the base is arranged through Defence’s facilities contractor, not directly.
A quick look at the yard sets the price for your block rather than a guess.
Operators who already cover the Jerrabomberra side of the ACT and understand how a Defence household runs.
Our crews service Harman, Symonston, Fyshwick and the streets of Oaks Estate and Queanbeyan next door, so your yard is on an existing round.
Small lawns from $50, gardening from $70, larger or overgrown yards quoted to the work. The figure is agreed before we start.
Every Fox Mowing ACT operator is insured and police-checked, which matters to housing providers and to anyone working near a Defence site.
Edges, trimming and a blow-down of paths and drives come standard, so the yard looks kept from the street.
Fortnightly, monthly, one-off or a march-out tidy. We can keep a round running while you are away and you do not need to be home.
Call 1800 FOX MOW or use the form. Most Harman-area yards can be priced from a photo or the street the same day.
Harman sits on open, low-lying country in the District of Jerrabomberra, and it gets the full Canberra winter. Frosts run from May to September and the couch and kikuyu in most yards go straw-coloured and stop, so we drop to a monthly tidy and leave the turf alone when it is white. September and October are the wettest months of the year and the lawns and verges take off together; that is when a feed pays for itself and when the fortnightly round starts. Summer here is hot, dry and windy, and a yard with no shade needs deep watering before 9 am under the ACT water rules to hold any colour through January. Autumn gives a second flush and the best window to repair and top dress worn patches before the first hard frost in late April.
We mow right across the inner south — Harman, Symonston, Fyshwick, Narrabundah, Kingston, Griffith, Red Hill, Barton, Forrest, Deakin, Yarralumla and Pialligo among them — and across the wider Canberra 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.
Small maintained lawns around Harman start from $50, a medium to large yard with edges and a blow-down runs from $70 to $150+, and gardening visits start from $70. A yard that has got away during a posting is quoted as a recovery job from $100 to $250+. A local operator confirms the price before the first cut.
Only when engaged by the Defence facilities contractor. HMAS Harman is a Royal Australian Navy base, and its ovals, grounds and on-base housing are managed through Defence, so we do not take direct bookings for anything inside the wire. Yards, contractor premises and housing around Harman and in neighbouring Oaks Estate and Queanbeyan are booked directly with us.
Yes. Standing fortnightly or monthly rounds for Defence housing around Harman are normal work for our operators, and we can keep them running while the member is away as long as we can reach the yard. We can also invoice a housing provider directly if that suits.
Because Harman sits on open, low ground in the District of Jerrabomberra where frosts settle early and hard. Couch, kikuyu and buffalo lawns go dormant once the frosts start in May and lose their colour until the soil warms again in spring, so a brown Harman lawn in June is normal rather than sick. Tall fescue is the one common lawn that stays green here through winter.
Yes. A pre-inspection tidy of the lawn, hedges and beds at a Harman-area house is something we do regularly, usually in one or two visits timed to the march-out date, and we take the green waste away so there is nothing left to deal with.
Phone 1800 369 669 or use the form and the Fox Mowing ACT operator for the Harman side will call you back the same day. Most housing yards around Harman can be priced from the street or a couple of photos, while contractor premises get a short visit first.