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 services the village blocks and rural properties around Tharwa, on the Murrumbidgee 35 kilometres south of Canberra, with ride-on and slashing gear for the bigger holdings.
Fox Mowing ACT mows and gardens right across Tharwa, the small village on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River where Tidbinbilla Road, Naas Road and Tharwa Drive meet, 35 kilometres south of Canberra. It is the oldest official settlement in the Territory, proclaimed in 1862, and it still has the feel of one: a general store, Saint Edmund’s Anglican Church, a community hall, tennis courts, a preschool, the old primary school closed since 2006 and a cemetery. Around 82 people live here, postcode 2620, and Tharwa Bridge, first opened in 1895 and fully restored by 2011, still carries the traffic in.
The village sits on Tharwa Adamellite, a coarse-grained granite-type rock more than 420 million years old, which makes the ground here different from the clay of the suburbs up the road. Blocks range from a cottage garden on the river flat to grazing country running up towards Mount Tennent, which the village is named after. So a Tharwa job might be a fortnightly mow around the house or a slash of long grass along a fence line before summer, and our operators bring the right gear for either.
Book your free Tharwa quoteFrom a lawn near the community hall to a paddock edge off Naas Road, the equipment and the price are set for the size of the job.
The house lawn kept on a schedule through the growing months, with edges along the verandah, paths and beds. Our lawn mowing and edging pages explain the standard visit.
Most Tharwa properties are bigger than a suburban block. Ride-on mowing and slashing handles house paddocks, driveways and boundary strips, quoted once we have seen the ground.
Tharwa narrowly escaped the 2003 fires. Cutting long grass back from the house, sheds and fence lines before summer is the most requested job in the village, and we do it early.
A spring away or a wet year on the river flats turns a house lawn into a hayfield. Staged cutting and a proper clean-up bring it back without ripping the turf.
Lawns down on the Murrumbidgee side hold moisture longer and frost harder. We mow when the ground can take it, and keep off frozen turf on winter mornings.
Fence lines and unmown corners are where bindii, clover and rural weeds seed into the house lawn. Weed control keeps the edges from feeding the middle.
Gardens here tend to be older cottage plantings near the village and shelter belts and windbreaks on the rural blocks. Our operators do hedging and pruning, bed weeding, mulching and full garden clean-ups around Tharwa from $70 a visit, with green waste taken away.
On a rural block the priorities are practical: keep the windbreak dense at the base, keep fuel away from the house and outbuildings, and mulch the beds so they survive a dry January on granite-derived soil. We can also tidy a property for sale or a change of tenants through our pre-sale and end-of-lease service. Being honest, Tharwa is a small village and we do not have someone parked in it every day — but our southern Tuggeranong operators come down Tharwa Drive regularly and book village work in runs.
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Village lawns start at the same prices as the suburbs; acreage is quoted once we have walked it. See the pricing guide for everything else.
| Lawn service | Guide price from | Typical inclusions |
|---|---|---|
| Small maintained lawn — mow, edge & blow | From $50 | Cottage lawns and small kept yards in the village, with easy access from the road. |
| Medium to large — mow, edges & blow | From $70-$150+ | House lawns on larger blocks, with edges, whipper-snipping and hard surfaces blown down. |
| Gardening basic visit | From $70 | Hedges, windbreak pruning, bed weeding and mulch, sized to the garden. |
| Overgrown lawn recovery | From $100-$250+ | Grass that has got away over a season, cut in stages and cleared. |
| Acreage / ride-on / slashing | Quoted on site | House paddocks, driveways and boundary strips on rural blocks around Tharwa, Naas Road and Tidbinbilla Road, with the ride-on or slasher brought down. |
Important: These are Tharwa guide prices. On rural blocks the final quote depends on hectares, grass height, slope, rocks and stumps, and how far the gear has to travel.
Rural work is priced on the ground, not off a map.
Operators who work the southern end of the valley and know the road to Tharwa.
Our operators cover Banks, Gordon and Conder and run down Tharwa Drive to the village and the rural blocks beyond, grouping jobs to keep trips efficient.
Village lawns from $50, gardening from $70, acreage and slashing quoted after a walk of the block with no guesswork.
Full insurance and police checks on every operator, so you can leave the gate open and get on with your day.
Clippings dealt with, edges trimmed, driveway and verandah blown clean, and slashed grass left in a state you can live with.
Fortnightly through the growing months, a big cut before fire season and not much in July, rather than a fixed interval that ignores the weather.
Call 1800 FOX MOW or use the form. Village mowing can be priced from the road; acreage gets a visit.
Tharwa is a frost hollow by any measure. Cold air runs off Mount Tennent and settles along the river, so frosts arrive in May, hit hard through June, July and August and can linger later into September than they do in the city. Warm-season grass shuts down completely and the ground stays wet on the flats, so winter is mostly about leaving the lawn alone. Spring is quick once it comes, with the wettest weeks of the year in September and October pushing grass and weeds along together, which is why the pre-summer slash matters. Summer is hot and dry with westerlies coming off the ranges; we cut higher, water deep and early, and keep long grass away from buildings. In autumn a fertilising feed and any lawn repairs or top dressing go in before the first hard frost so the house lawn goes into winter with some strength.
We mow right across Tuggeranong — Tharwa, Banks, Gordon, Conder, Calwell, Bonython, Chisholm, Gilmore, Fadden, Gowrie and Greenway among them, along with the rural blocks of Paddys River — and across the wider Tuggeranong 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, kept lawn in the village of Tharwa starts from $50, a larger house lawn with edges trimmed and the paths blown is $70 to $150+, garden visits are from $70 and overgrown recovery from $100 to $250+. Acreage, slashing and ride-on work on the rural blocks around Tharwa is always quoted on site, because hectares, grass height and terrain vary so much from one property to the next.
Yes. Slashing house paddocks, driveways, boundary strips and fire breaks on properties around Tharwa, Naas Road and Tidbinbilla Road is a core part of what our operators do in the far south of the Territory, using ride-on and slashing gear. We book it in runs and price it after walking the block.
Late October to November is the window, before the grass cures off in the December heat. Tharwa narrowly avoided the 2003 bushfires and sits between the Murrumbidgee and the bush on Mount Tennent, so keeping grass short around the house, sheds and fence lines before summer is the single most useful thing we do for Tharwa properties each year.
We can. Shelter belts, hedges, cottage garden beds and mulching are all handled by our Tharwa operators from $70 a visit, and the pruning is timed so the windbreak stays dense at the bottom where it does its job.
Yes. Rural rentals and weekend properties around Tharwa can be put on a growing-season schedule, with the lawn mown, long grass slashed and the place left tidy between visits, and we can send a photo when the job is done if you are not on site.
Call 1800 369 669 or fill in the form and a Fox Mowing ACT operator from the southern end of Tuggeranong will ring you back. Tharwa village lawns can often be quoted from the road; rural blocks are walked first so the price is right.