Lawn Mowing in Manoora

Council's 2024 description of the area around the District Centre on Pease Street is a mix of small lots, duplexes, triplexes and small to medium sized unit developments, with detached housing, townhouses and apartment buildings side by side. The Census puts numbers on it: detached houses are fewer than four in ten of the suburb's occupied dwellings, flats or apartments more than four in ten, and semi-detached, row or terrace houses and townhouses a further 13.6%.

One Pease Street block can hold three kinds of yard, and the customer with a duplex strip has the same question as the one with a full house block: what exactly is being done, and when. If the answer shifts from one dwelling type to the next, nobody at the address can check it.

The visit is the same named thing at every one of them: the cut, the edges, the line trim and a blow down of the paths and driveway, on the same day every fortnight. What differs from a house block to a shared frontage is the yard, not the list of what gets done. Ring 0488 622 205 with the address and the kind of dwelling, and the round is set from there.

Council's local law schedule registers six drainage reserves in Manoora: Jensen Street East at Oregon Street and Jensen Street, Jensen Street North, Jensen Street West at Ireland Crescent, Maytown Close at Centenary Close, the Moody Creek drainage reserve on Moignard Street, and the Woodward Park drainage reserve on Jensen Street, with Moody Creek Park itself on Marchant Street. Moody Creek runs through the suburb, and the Moignard Street reserve carries its name.

Where a yard backs onto one of those reserves, the land over the back fence is on Council's register. Across the whole of Cairns, moving garden waste, mulch, turf or soil off a property is restricted for everyone, private or commercial, inside the electric ant biosecurity zone, unless it is going to a waste facility that accepts electric ant carriers or moves under a biosecurity instrument permit. A bag of clippings tipped over the fence is the wrong answer on both counts.

Mulch mowing is Trisim's method: the clippings are cut fine and returned to the root zone of the lawn they came from, so there is nothing to bag, nothing to move and no clipping-removal cost, and the business states they act as a free natural fertiliser. The blow down at the end of the visit clears the paths and driveway. Nothing from the mow needs to go anywhere near the fence. If the yard backs onto one of the reserves, mention it when you call 0488 622 205.

Council's precinct plan for Manunda and Manoora describes the soil as 'remnant swamp floor with dominantly well drained sands and water logged and disturbed soils', and notes a high water table. Rainfall at the Bureau of Meteorology's Cairns Aero station, quoted as a Cairns figure rather than a Manoora one, peaks at 437.5mm in February, 422.1mm in March and 404.8mm in January, with roughly sixteen rain days in each of those months.

On ground like that, one corner of a yard can be dry enough to cut while another is still holding the last fall, and a fortnight of wet-season growth is not something a resident without a mower can catch up on, or an owner who is not there can see happening.

The answer is the day, not the weather. The round is the same day every fortnight through the wet as through the dry, and mulch mowing returns the clippings to the root zone rather than leaving wet cut grass to be raked and carted. Book the day once and the wet season is handled on that day, every fortnight. Send the address through, or call 0488 622 205.