City of Boroondara, City of Whitehorse, Maroondah City Council, Knox City Council, Manningham City Council and Yarra Ranges Shire

Lawn mowing in Melbourne's eastern suburbs

Live in 14 of 55 suburbs: verified mowers are bidding there today, and founding mowers are joining in 31 more. Not on yet? List anyway, free, and we'll email you the day yours switches on.

The east climbs from the established garden suburbs of Kew, Hawthorn and Camberwell through Box Hill, Blackburn and Ringwood to the foothills of the Dandenongs at Boronia and Ferntree Gully. It is the most treed side of the city, on sedimentary soils that drain well, and shade and leaf drop shape most mowing visits.

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Every suburb in eastern suburbs

55 suburbs, A to Z, with postcodes. Live means verified mowers are bidding today; Recruiting means mowers are being signed up in that cluster; Not yet means it's mapped and opens when enough locals join.

Mowers wanted: Box Hill / Ringwood / Knox and Boroondara and Yarra Ranges foothills

A suburb opens when several neighbouring mowers cover it - one mower spread across twenty suburbs is a phone book; six mowers working four suburbs is a market. These are the clusters being signed up here now.

Box Hill / Ringwood / Knox

Mowers joined: 1
Lawns waiting: 0
Offer closes: 31 Dec

Box Hill, Ringwood, Blackburn, Nunawading, Mitcham, Vermont, Ringwood East, Heathmont, Croydon, Bayswater, Boronia, Wantirna, Donvale, Ringwood North, Bayswater North, Croydon Hills, Croydon North, Croydon South, Kilsyth, Warranwood, Blackburn North, Blackburn South, Box Hill North, Box Hill South, Burwood, Forest Hill, Mont Albert, Mont Albert North, Vermont South, Knoxfield, Lysterfield, Scoresby, The Basin.

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Boroondara

Mowers joined: 0
Lawns waiting: 0
Offer closes: 31 Dec

Ashburton, Balwyn North, Canterbury, Hawthorn East, Kew East.

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Yarra Ranges foothills

Mowers joined: 1
Lawns waiting: 0
Offer closes: 31 Dec

Upper Ferntree Gully, Lilydale, Mooroolbark, Chirnside Park, Montrose, Mount Evelyn, Belgrave, Upwey.

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Nature strips and green bins here

What each council in eastern suburbs expects of the strip out the front and where the clippings go, read off the council's own page.

Council	Nature strip and garden waste	Checked
City of Boroondara	Boroondara does not mow, water or spray nature strips; the community expectation is that residents mow the strip outside their place. The lime-green-lid FOGO bin takes lawn clippings, leaves, weeds and branches up to 75 mm and has been collected weekly since 4 May 2020, covered by the waste levy on rates.	27 Sep 2026
City of Maroondah	Maroondah owns the nature strip and residents must keep it tidy; it cannot be changed without council approval, and where a planting is approved the ongoing upkeep is the owner's. Food and garden waste goes in the lime-green-lid FOGO bin, collected fortnightly on the alternate week to recycling.	12 Sep 2026
City of Monash	Monash owns the nature strip and expects the owner or occupier to keep it maintained; an overgrown strip can be reported to the council with a photo, and its Horticulture and Community Amenity teams follow it up. Anything planted on the strip needs a permit, stays under 50 cm and leaves a 1.4 m footpath zone clear; every tree on a street or strip is a council tree, and only the council prunes it. The green-lid 240 L food and garden bin has gone out weekly since August 2022, with landfill and recycling fortnightly, and the standard bin is covered by the rates waste charge.	27 Sep 2026
City of Whitehorse	Whitehorse owns the nature strip and says it is common practice for residents to maintain the lawn on it by regular mowing, weeding and picking up litter; the council plants and maintains the street trees. A grassed strip needs no permit, any other planting does. The lime-green-lid FOGO bin is opt-in and charged as a supplementary bin, $75.00 for 140 L or $99.50 for 240 L a year in 2026-27, and is emptied fortnightly on the week recycling is not.	12 Sep 2026
Knox City Council	Knox plants and maintains the street trees; every other cost of keeping the nature strip is the resident's, and the council does not restore grass on strips. Plantings must stay under 500 mm for sightlines and no trees may be added. The green-lid food and garden bin is emptied weekly, rubbish fortnightly since 3 July 2023; a 240 L FOGO bin is inside the residential waste charge ($434.55 in 2025-26), a second one is $150.25 a year.	12 Sep 2026
Manningham Council	Manningham's Nature Strip Guide 2023 says the council does no renovation or proactive maintenance of nature strips and relies on the established community expectation that the owner or resident mows, weeds, picks up litter and levels the surface; it owns every tree on the strip for the life of the tree. Approved plantings stay under 500 mm (300 mm near intersections). The green-lid food and garden bin has been weekly since 3 July 2023, with garbage and recycling fortnightly on alternate weeks.	12 Sep 2026
Maroondah City Council	Maroondah owns the nature strip, the land between your boundary and the kerb, and residents must keep it tidy and cannot change it without council approval; where a planting is approved, the ongoing upkeep is the owner's. The council plants thousands of nature strip trees a year. Food and garden waste goes in the lime-green-lid FOGO bin, collected fortnightly on the alternate week to recycling; garbage is weekly.	27 Sep 2026
Yarra Ranges Shire	Yarra Ranges says it does not have a program for mowing nature strip grass outside private property; the most it does is a once-off slash where a complaint is raised and an inspection confirms a fire hazard or an obscured intersection, and it says a once-off slash is not mowing. Indigenous plants are preferred on strips, ground covers and low shrubs under 1 m and gravel toppings in place of grass are allowed, and artificial turf, hard paving, rocks over 7 mm, sleepers and irrigation are banned; no permit is mentioned. A residential collection must include all three bins. The lime-green-lid FOGO bin comes in 80, 120 or 240 L, is collected weekly, and is charged per bin at $143, $157 or $201 a year in 2026-27 on top of the $136 base charge; rubbish and recycling are fortnightly.	27 Sep 2026

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