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 keeps the frontages, verges and yards of Mitchell's light-industrial estate tidy, from the depots along Dacre Street to the businesses near the Sandford Street light rail stop.
Fox Mowing ACT mows and maintains grounds right across Mitchell, the light-industrial estate in postcode 2911 that was the first part of the Gungahlin district to be developed. Almost nobody lives here. The streets are named after Australian industrialists, the suburb itself after the explorer and Surveyor-General Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, and the 7.4 square kilometres between Franklin, Harrison, Kaleen and Lyneham are given over to workshops, showrooms, depots and yards. Even the light rail depot is here: it opened in March 2019, and the Sandford Street stop followed in September 2021 after local businesses pushed for it.
So the lawn work in Mitchell is not about family backyards. It is nature strips in front of a showroom, a patch of turf beside a car park, the grassed setback around a warehouse and the long verges that customers drive past on the way in. At 593 metres Mitchell sits lower than the residential suburbs to its north, on calcareous shale that grows a decent verge when it is looked after and a scruffy one when it is not. Our operators run commercial rounds through here on a schedule that suits trading hours, invoice the business, and turn up whether or not anyone is at the counter.
Book your free Mitchell quoteFrom a showroom setback on Sandford Street to a fenced yard off Dacre Street, the brief in Mitchell is the same: keep it neat, keep it safe, keep it off the manager’s list.
Fortnightly or monthly verge and frontage mowing with edges along kerbs, car parks and paths. Our lawn mowing and edging pages cover the standard visit.
Ongoing grounds care for showrooms, depots and offices in Mitchell, invoiced monthly with one point of contact. See our commercial garden maintenance page.
The verge is the first thing a customer sees pulling in. We keep it cut, edged and clear of litter blown in from the road, and trim around signage and bollards.
Industrial unit blocks share driveways, bin areas and strips of turf that nobody owns and everybody sees. We look after them for the body corporate under a single arrangement; see property maintenance.
Undeveloped lots and back-of-yard ground grow tall and dry through summer. Slashing them keeps the estate tidy and cuts fire fuel; our slashing page explains the pricing.
Weeds through cracks in car parks, moss on shaded concrete and grime on entry paths all get dealt with. Pressure cleaning and weed control are part of the commercial round.
Business gardens in Mitchell are mostly hedges along a fence, a few shrubs at an entry and mulched beds between a car park and the road. They need to look orderly and they need to not become a job for staff. Our operators handle hedging and pruning, bed weeding, mulching and full garden clean-ups from $70 a visit, with green waste removed so nothing sits in your skip.
Because there is little tree cover in an industrial estate, plantings in Mitchell cook in the hot north-westerlies from November and beds dry out quickly on the shale. A thick mulch before summer and hedges kept dense rather than clipped hard make the difference between a frontage that looks kept and one that looks abandoned. Where a premises is changing hands or a lease is ending, our end-of-lease gardening gets the grounds back to the condition the agreement expects.
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Most Mitchell work is quoted per premises and billed monthly, but the same base rates apply as everywhere else in the district. Our pricing guide has the full list.
| Lawn service | Guide price from | Typical inclusions |
|---|---|---|
| Small maintained lawn — mow, edge & blow | From $50 | A small verge or entry lawn in front of a unit or showroom, cut, edged and blown clear. |
| Medium to large — mow, edges & blow | From $70-$150+ | Larger setbacks and shared grounds: mowing, edging, trimming around fences and signage, hard surfaces blown off. |
| Gardening basic visit | From $70 | Hedges, entry beds, weeding and mulch for a business frontage, green waste taken away. |
| Overgrown lawn recovery | From $100-$250+ | Neglected verges and yard turf brought back with several passes and a full clean-up. |
| Acreage / ride-on / slashing | Quoted on site | Vacant lots, back-of-yard ground and larger depot grounds quoted on inspection. |
Important: These are Mitchell starting prices. A commercial quote is set by the total grassed and garden area, how many premises are covered, access around vehicles and loading zones, and the visit frequency.
We look at the premises first so the price reflects your frontage, not an average suburban lawn.
A local commercial round rather than a call-out, run by operators who already work Franklin, Harrison and the town centre.
Our operators cover Mitchell alongside Franklin, Harrison, Kaleen and Lyneham, so a business here is on an existing round with a regular face.
Verge and entry lawns from $50, gardening from $70, larger grounds quoted on inspection and billed monthly with no surprises on the invoice.
Full insurance and police checks on every operator, which is what your landlord, insurer and safety officer will want to see before anyone works on site.
Edges, trimming around signs and a blow-down of car parks and paths are standard, so the premises reads as well run from the road.
Early starts from 7 am, visits outside delivery windows and no need for anyone on site to let us in where access allows.
Call 1800 FOX MOW or use the form and a local operator will inspect the premises and come back with a price, usually the same day.
Commercial grounds in Mitchell go through the same Canberra seasons as any lawn; they just get noticed differently. Through winter the couch and kikuyu verges go straw-coloured under the May-to-September frosts and mowing drops to an occasional tidy, while any fescue keeps growing slowly and needs the odd cut. The September and October rain peak turns everything green at once, and a verge that was cut monthly in July can need fortnightly visits by November. Summer on an estate with little shade is hard on turf: heatwaves into the mid-30s and dry westerlies leave unwatered grass brown by January, and ACT water rules rule out sprinklers between 9 am and 6 pm in daylight saving. An autumn feed and a top dressing of worn entry lawns in March sets them up before the first hard frost.
We mow right across Gungahlin — Franklin, Harrison, Crace, Amaroo, Bonner, Casey, Forde, Moncrieff, Kinlyside, Kaleen and Lyneham among them — and across the wider Gungahlin 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 verge or entry lawn in front of a Mitchell business starts from $50 a visit. Larger setbacks and shared grounds run $70 to $150+, gardening starts from $70, neglected turf is priced as a recovery job from $100 to $250+, and vacant-lot slashing is quoted on inspection. Commercial customers in Mitchell are usually billed monthly under one arrangement.
Yes, commercial grounds are the main thing Fox Mowing ACT does in Mitchell. The suburb is Gungahlin's light-industrial estate with almost no residents, so our operators run scheduled rounds for showrooms, depots, workshops and unit complexes, covering verges, entry lawns, hedges and hard surfaces, and invoicing the business rather than a household.
Because Mitchell has very little shade and most verges are unwatered couch or kikuyu, which browns off under Canberra heatwaves into the mid-30s and the hot north-westerly winds. It is not dead, and it greens up again with autumn rain. Mowing it a little higher through summer, keeping the edges sharp and giving it a feed in autumn keeps a Mitchell verge looking kept even when it is not lush.
Yes. Gardening visits in Mitchell start from $70 and cover fence-line hedges, entry shrubs, bed weeding, mulching and green waste removal. Most businesses have the gardens done on the same visit as the verge mowing so there is one operator and one invoice.
Yes. Shared driveways, bin areas and common turf in Mitchell unit complexes can be maintained under a single body corporate arrangement, with the operator reporting to the strata manager and visiting on a fixed schedule. Individual tenants can also book their own frontage separately.
Call 1800 369 669 or fill in the form and a Fox Mowing ACT operator who already works the estate will get back to you the same day. For most Mitchell frontages we can inspect from the street during business hours and send a written price without interrupting your trade.