Overgrowth Management in Dandenong

Overgrowth Management in Dandenong: Local Conditions

Overgrowth jobs in Dandenong split between two categories: residential blocks that have fallen behind due to vacancy or estate work, and commercial boundaries on industrial sites where vegetation management has been inconsistent. The residential jobs, concentrated in the streets between the Princes Highway and Walker Street, tend to involve couch and kikuyu lawns that have gone to knee height, established shrubs that have grown into each other, and in some cases privet self-seeding along fences. We use a brushcutter with a blade attachment for the lawn overgrowth phase, clearing to mowable height before switching to the rotary deck. The commercial and industrial boundary work is a different scale: vacant lots on Ordish Road and similar industrial streets can carry metre-high native grasses, fennel, capeweed and boxthorn thickets along fence lines, and the typical job involves a tow-behind slasher or a ride-on with a mulching deck followed by a chemical knockdown on persistent perennial runners. Greater Dandenong Council's weed management obligations on commercial landholders mean we get regular calls after council compliance notices, particularly in late October and November when vegetation growth peaks and notices go out. Ivy is an increasing problem on boundary fences in the older residential streets. It has been growing on some of those clay-soil blocks for 20 or more years and has root systems that need physical removal as well as herbicide follow-up. We don't use slashers or heavy machinery on residential blocks without an inspection first; the post-war gas meters and old concrete paths on these properties are not always visible through dense overgrowth.

Working in Dandenong