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 operators cover all six square kilometres of Kaleen, from the river-named streets off Maribyrnong Avenue to the blocks along Baldwin Drive and the Lyneham Ridge side.
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Kaleen, a suburb whose name comes from the Wiradjuri word for water and whose streets are all named after Australian rivers. Kaleen was gazetted on 15 January 1974 and covers about six square kilometres between Baldwin Drive and Ginninderra Drive, which makes it one of the larger suburbs in Belconnen by area. It sits at roughly 601 metres, with the Lyneham Ridge eucalypt plantation and a horse paddock along its eastern side and a bike path running north to south through the middle, under Ginninderra Drive and out towards Giralang.
A suburb that big, laid out in the mid-1970s, means a lot of standard family blocks with generous lawns, most of them couch or kikuyu that has been mowed for close to fifty years. Around the two small shopping centres on Maribyrnong Avenue and the larger centre on Georgina Crescent there are also verges, church grounds and school edges that need a regular cut. Our operators live on the north side and know that the east of Kaleen sits on calcareous shale and the west on older greywacke, the kind of detail that decides how a lawn drains and when it can be mowed after rain.
Book your free Kaleen quoteFrom a block beside Kaleen South oval to one up near the Barton Highway end, we set the cut for the grass and the season.
Weekly or fortnightly in the growing season, stretched out through winter, always with edges and a blow-down. Full details on our lawn mowing and edging pages.
Kaleen blocks are generous, and front-and-back lawns add up. We bring the right mower for the area so a big lawn is still a quick, tidy job priced fairly.
Fifty years of growth means shaded lawns that thin out and gutters and beds full of leaves each autumn. We recommend fescue for the shady corners and can arrange tree trimming to lift the canopy.
Bright green tufts of winter grass in a dormant couch lawn and clover patches in spring are common on older Kaleen lawns. Our clover page explains the treatments and their timing.
Couch and kikuyu get fed from mid-October and again in February; fescue in mid-September and March. See fertilising for how we schedule it.
Leaf-filled gutters and green driveways go with old trees. Gutter cleaning and pressure cleaning can be added to a regular round.
Kaleen gardens were planted when the suburb was, so most of them are mature: hedges that have thickened into walls, deciduous trees that drop a season’s worth of leaves in May, and beds that have quietly filled with weeds under all that shade. Our operators handle hedging and pruning, weeding, clean-ups and mulching from $70 a visit, green waste removed.
Autumn is the busy season here, when the leaves come down and the beds need clearing before the frost. Spring is for shaping hedges and mulching before the soil dries out. We also do pre-sale and end-of-lease tidy-ups for owners and agents around Georgina Crescent and Maribyrnong Avenue, and ongoing garden maintenance for people who would rather spend Saturday at the Kaleen District Playing Fields than in the beds.
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Starting prices are the same on every river-named street in Kaleen, confirmed by the operator who sees the lawn. Our pricing guide lists the rest of our services.
| Lawn service | Guide price from | Typical inclusions |
|---|---|---|
| Small maintained lawn — mow, edge & blow | From $50 | Courtyards and small, regularly mowed lawns with straightforward access. |
| Medium to large — mow, edges & blow | From $70-$150+ | Bigger Kaleen lawns front and back, edges along fences and paths, and a tidy of hard surfaces. |
| Gardening basic visit | From $70 | Hedge shaping, weeding, bed clean-outs and leaf removal, priced to the size of the garden. |
| Overgrown lawn recovery | From $100-$250+ | Thick, tall growth that needs multiple passes, catcher work and extra clean-up time. |
| Acreage / ride-on / slashing | Quoted on site | The odd very large block or open area that needs ride-on mowing. |
Important: These are Kaleen guide prices only. Lawn area, grass height, tree litter, access and how often you book all shape the final figure.
A free onsite look sets the price for your lawn rather than the street average.
The same faces each visit, based across Kaleen, Giralang, Lawson and Bruce.
Our Kaleen operators work the streets between Baldwin Drive and Ginninderra Drive every week, so they already know your soil, your trees and your neighbours’ bindii.
From $50 for a small lawn, from $70 for gardening. Large or overgrown Kaleen lawns are quoted to the actual work, not a formula.
Full insurance and current police checks on every crew, for peace of mind at home or on a rental in the 2617 postcode.
Edges, whipper-snipping and a blow-down are part of every visit, not an extra.
Weekend cricket at the district fields, school terms, house inspections: we fit the round to your week and shift it with the season.
Call 1800 FOX MOW or send the form. A regular mow can usually be priced from the street the same day.
Kaleen has more tree cover than the newer estates to the north, and that changes the calendar. Autumn leaf drop lands on the lawn through May just as the couch and kikuyu are going dormant, so the last cuts of the season double as clean-ups. Winter brings frost from May to September and near-zero nights; warm-season lawns go straw-coloured and rest, while fescue under the trees keeps growing slowly and needs an occasional cut. September and October are the wettest months, the soil warms past the mid-teens by mid-October, and growth takes off. Summer maximums average 28.5 degrees in January with heatwaves into the mid-30s, so shaded Kaleen lawns cope better than most but still want deep watering before 9 am. Autumn is when thin, shaded patches get repaired and top dressed or overseeded with fescue, and when the last feed goes on before the late-April frosts.
We mow right across Belconnen — Kaleen, Giralang, Lawson, Bruce, Evatt, Florey, Cook, Aranda, Charnwood, Dunlop and Lyneham among them — and across the wider Belconnen district. 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.
A small, regularly maintained lawn in Kaleen is mowed, edged and blown from $50. Kaleen's typical larger 1970s blocks usually fall in the $70 to $150+ range, gardening visits start at $70, and an overgrown lawn is quoted as a recovery job between $100 and $250+. Your local operator gives a firm price on site.
Because the trees have won: after fifty years of growth, many Kaleen gardens cast enough shade that couch and kikuyu cannot photosynthesise properly and thin out. The fix is either to lift the canopy with pruning or to switch the shaded area to tall fescue, which tolerates shade and stays green through a Belconnen winter. We can do both and top dress the bare patches while we are there.
Almost certainly winter grass (Poa), which shows up as lush green clumps in a dormant, straw-coloured couch or kikuyu lawn across Kaleen every June. It seeds prolifically and dies off in the heat, leaving holes. A pre-emergent in September and October, before the soil reaches 15 degrees, stops the next generation.
Yes. Kaleen's established hedges, deciduous trees and overgrown beds are the bulk of our gardening work in the suburb, and visits start from $70 with green waste taken away. Autumn leaf clear-outs and spring hedge shaping are the two busiest bookings.
Yes. We run scheduled mowing and garden upkeep for rental properties across Kaleen and can deal directly with the agent or landlord for invoicing. Tenants do not need to be home as long as we can get through the gate, and we can add an end-of-lease tidy when they move out.
Ring 1800 369 669 or fill in the form and a Fox Mowing ACT operator based near Kaleen will call you back the same day. Most regular mowing quotes can be given from a look at the lawn from the street; gardening jobs get a quick walk-through first.