Lawn mowing in Footscray
Footscray was a municipality of 300 people in 1859 and an industrial suburb for a century after; now it is apartments and townhouses on the old factory sites around the market and the busiest station outside the city, with Footscray Park - 15 hectares of Edwardian parkland - on the Maribyrnong.
Mowie hasn't opened Footscray 3011 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 Footscray yet
No Mowie mowers cover Footscray yet. Suburbs open one cluster at a time as local mowers join. List your lawn and it's first in the queue.
- Lawns waiting
- 0
- Mowers covering
- 0
- Founding offer closes
- 31 Dec
Be the first mower in Footscray
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 Footscray lawn guides at $105–$150 a cut.
Claim a founding seatBefore you list: three things worth telling a mower about a Footscray lawn
- Say whether the back is reached down a side path or through the house. Cottage paths are narrow.
- Townhouse common lawns are usually the body corporate's. Check before listing a shared area.
- Bundle the nature strip with a small back lawn so the trip is worth it.
Footscray lawn mowing questions
How much does lawn mowing cost in Footscray?+
Around $105-$150 per visit for 180 m² of lawn. If yours is a cottage back yard or a townhouse courtyard it prices under that; a wider Edwardian block with a front lawn and the strip sits nearer it. Access down a side path is the main thing in a quote.
Is the nature strip my job in Footscray?+
Yes. Maribyrnong has residents maintain the strip abutting their property - mowing, weeding, trimming edges and picking up litter - while the council selects, plants and maintains the street trees, which residents may not plant or remove. List the strip with the lawn so one visit covers both.
Does a Footscray townhouse get a garden bin?+
Houses and developments of up to four units get the green-lid food and garden organics bin - 240 L as standard, 120 L on request - collected fortnightly on the alternate week to recycling, with the cost in the rates. Buildings of five or more units are not yet served, so say in the listing where the clippings should go.
About Footscray
The workers' cottages that survive between the new buildings are on small blocks: a front garden or no front at all, a side path a mower barely fits, and a back yard of lawn, concrete and a lemon tree. The townhouses on the old industrial sites have courtyards and common lawns. Toward Kingsville and Seddon the blocks widen and the Edwardian houses have a front lawn and a nature strip. There are fewer lawns per street here than in the suburbs further out, and the ones that exist are small and shaded.
The soil is the west's basalt clay, and the low ground near the Maribyrnong stays wet after rain. Buffalo and fescue in the shaded courtyards; couch and kikuyu where the sun gets in. A visit is quick - mow, edges along the paving, the strip, blow-down - and works best as a regular fortnightly or monthly booking.
Footscray is City of Maribyrnong, which has residents maintain the nature strip in front of their place - mowing, weeding, trimming the edges, picking up litter - and keeps the street trees for itself. The green-lid food and garden organics bin is 240 L as standard, collected fortnightly on the alternate week to recycling and paid for in the rates; it goes to houses and developments of up to four units, not yet to the bigger apartment buildings. Footscray Market, with its 33 food stalls, is the centre.