Lawn Mowing in Halifax: Weekly, Edges Included, from $55 a Visit

What a mowing visit includes

• The cut at 3 to 3.5 inches in summer, alternating pattern each week so wheel ruts never set in.
• Trimming around trees, posts, fences, the shed and the beds, everywhere the mower cannot reach.
• Edging along the walkway and the driveway, every visit, so the line stays crisp instead of creeping over the concrete.
• Blow-off of the walkway, steps, driveway and patio. Nothing green left on anything grey.
• Clippings mulched back into the lawn, or bagged and taken away if you prefer.
• Gates closed, hoses and toys put back, and a photo of the finished lawn by text when we leave.

What lawn mowing costs in Halifax

The price is by grass area, not lot size, and it is the same in every part of HRM with no travel fee. Weekly from early May to late October, about 22 visits.

Every two weeks: $15 more a visit, because the grass is twice as long and the cut takes longer. Prices before HST. $70 a visit is $79.80 with HST.

Not sure which size you are? Most peninsula and older Dartmouth lots are small, most Clayton Park, Cole Harbour, Sackville and Bedford lawns are medium, and Hammonds Plains, Fall River and Timberlea lots are usually large. The price guide shows how to measure in two minutes with Google Maps, and we confirm the size from the property map before the first visit anyway.

Weekly or every two weeks?

Weekly is the base price and the one we recommend from May to July, when Halifax grass can grow an inch in four days. You take off a third of the blade at most, the lawn never looks shaggy, and the clippings are short enough to mulch.

Every two weeks suits slow, shady or sandy lawns, and anyone who wants the cost down. It costs $15 more a visit because the grass is longer and often has to be cut twice or bagged. In late May and June a two-week lawn can look rough by the end of the gap; from August on it is usually fine. You can switch between the two by text at any time.

How we cut

Three inches is the shortest we go on a normal lawn, 3.5 in July and August. Tall grass shades the soil, keeps the roots cool, and crowds out crabgrass and dandelions, which matters in Nova Scotia because nobody can legally spray them. Short-cut lawns are the ones that go brown in a dry July.

Blades are sharpened on a schedule. A dull blade tears the grass instead of cutting it, the tips go white two days later, and the lawn looks grey from the road. We change the mowing direction every week, trim before we mow so the clippings get mulched, and edge the hard surfaces with an edger, not a trimmer held sideways, so the line is vertical and clean.

If the lawn is too wet, we skip it and come back the next dry day. If something is hidden in long grass, a hose, a sprinkler head, a toy, we walk the lawn first, but tell us about anything buried, like an irrigation line or a dog fence wire, so we can mark it.

What you do

• Pick your weekday. We keep it for the season, so you always know when we are coming.
• Leave the gate unlocked on that day, or give us a code.
• Dogs inside, toys, hoses and furniture off the grass if you can. If not, we move them and put them back.
• Pay after each visit from the invoice we text you: e-Transfer or card. No deposit.

Skipping a week or stopping

No contract on per-visit mowing. Text us by 6pm the day before to skip a week, for a party, a sprinkler repair, or because the lawn has not grown. Stop any time. If you would rather not think about it at all, the Lawn plan spreads the season over 12 equal payments, and the Lawn + Seasons and Everything plans add the cleanups, fertilizer and winter snow for the same prices as booking them one by one.

Questions about mowing

Related

• Spring cleanup: the first visit of the year, before mowing starts
• Fall cleanup: leaves gone and the final cut before snow
• Monthly plans: Lawn, Lawn + Seasons or Everything in 12 equal payments
• 2027 price guide: every price with HST examples

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