Lawn mowing in Bentleigh East
Bentleigh East lies inside Henry Dendy's 1841 purchase of 5,120 acres and grew market gardens from the early 1850s, but its main growth was post-war: the schools that mark it opened between 1952 and 1970.
Mowie hasn't opened Bentleigh East 3165 yet - suburbs switch on one cluster at a time as local mowers join. List your lawn now, free, and it is shown to the first local mowers before anyone else's; nothing is charged until a job is done and you've seen the photo.
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No mowers in Bentleigh East yet
No Mowie mowers cover Bentleigh East yet. Suburbs open one cluster at a time as local mowers join. List your lawn and it's first in the queue.
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- Founding offer closes
- 31 Dec
Be the first mower in Bentleigh East
Free to join, 10% + GST* only on jobs you win, and founding mowers pay 0% for 3 months from their first paid job, then 10% + GST locked until 31 Dec 2027. A typical Bentleigh East lawn guides at $110–$155 a cut.
Claim a founding seatBefore you list: three things worth telling a mower about a Bentleigh East lawn
- The old garden soil here was sand. If your lawn dries out in summer, ask for a higher cut from December.
- The lime-green bin is emptied weekly, so 'clippings in the green bin' is on every visit. Say if you would rather have them mulched in.
- If a street tree sits on your strip, remember it is Glen Eira's. Ask for trimming around the trunk, not any pruning of it.
Bentleigh East lawn mowing questions
How much does lawn mowing cost in Bentleigh East?+
Our model has a 180 m² Bentleigh East lawn at between $110 and $155 for one cut. The bid is worked off the measured area of your own lawn; a front and back lawn together usually measures more than a front lawn alone and is quoted that way.
Is the nature strip council's job in Bentleigh East?+
No, apart from the trees. Glen Eira relies on property owners to mow, weed and edge the strip and keep it safe and tidy. Street trees are council's to plant and maintain, and residents may not prune or remove them.
Where do the clippings go in Bentleigh East?+
Into the lime-green FOGO bin, which Glen Eira empties weekly as a standard service; the material is composted at Dandenong South. A free kitchen caddy is available from Glen Eira Town Hall. Choose 'clippings in the green bin' when you list and there is a bin to take them every week.
About Bentleigh East
An Anglican school stood on Tucker Road from 1850, a Catholic school from 1865 and a state primary on Centre Road from 1878, and the East Boundary Hotel opened in 1934, but the main growth across the suburb's 9.2 square kilometres came after the Second World War. Tucker Road primary opened in 1952, Coatesville in 1953, Valkstone and Eastmoor in 1957, Moorabbin Heights in 1960, Moorleigh High in 1966, a Catholic boys' secondary in 1970 and Moorabbin Hospital in 1975. Coatesville, around Mackie Road, is a locality within the suburb, and the 25 hectare East Village renewal site sits at East Boundary and North Roads.
The market gardeners here worked the same ground as Bentleigh's: sandy soil that was easily worked, with springs in several places along the chain of water courses that runs through to Cheltenham. That sand is the Brighton Group, the formation the Melbourne Sandbelt is named for, and soils on it drain very well, go droughty in summer and are acidic and low in fertility. Tucker Road bounds the suburb to the west and Warrigal Road to the east, North Road and South Road top and bottom; Centre Road cuts it east-west and East Boundary Road north-south.
The council is Glen Eira, which puts the nature strip on the property owner: mowing, weeding, edging, and keeping it safe and free of rubbish. The street trees are council's, and residents may not plant, prune or remove them. A Nature Strip Planting Permit is $50; unpermitted plantings can be removed at the owner's cost. Food and garden waste goes in the lime-green bin, emptied weekly as a standard service, and the council hands out a free kitchen caddy at Glen Eira Town Hall.