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Garden and green waste clearance, Upper North Shore
The bin takes a fortnight's garden. Yours produces a season's.
This is the job our crew was built around. Hedge reductions, storm drops, the corner that quietly became a compost empire, cleared in one visit by people who treat a garden as a garden, not a tip face.
The jobs we see every week
- The hedge reduction aftermath. The photinia finally got its metre taken off, and now there's a pile longer than the hedge. We load it the day it suits you, not the next booking window.
- The storm drop. The southerly took a limb out of the liquidambar and it's been lying on the lawn ever since, killing the grass under it. We cut it to carryable lengths, load it and rake the lawn back to light.
- The whole-corner overhaul. Years of prunings behind the shed, half-composted, tangled with jasmine. The classic Understorey job. We dig it out to bare earth and leave a corner you can plant again.
- The pre-sale tidy. The agent wants the garden reading open and cared for. We clear the accumulation, sweep the paths and leave the beds intact for the photos.
- The regular season cut. Some gardens up here simply produce. A standing autumn and spring clearance keeps the block ahead of its own canopy.
Autumn is our biggest season for a reason: this is the one corner of Sydney with a true leaf-fall, and every liquidambar in Turramurra proves it at once.
How we work around a real garden
Boards down, beds first
Barrow routes get boards where the lawn is soft, and we agree what's precious before we start. Agapanthus borders survive us. That's a point of pride.
Cut to carry, not to drag
Limbs get sawn to lengths two hands can carry, because dragging a canopy branch through a bed is how gardens get wrecked by rubbish crews.
Raked back to light
The job isn't done when the truck is full. It's done when the corner is raked, the paths are swept and the gate is closed behind us.
Green waste rides separately from general rubbish, so it can go where green waste should: to a transfer station that turns it into mulch and compost rather than landfill. The detail is in where it all goes.
The green bin, the council cleanup, and us
We're not here to talk you out of the free options. The green bin handles a normal fortnight, and Ku-ring-gai's booked green-waste collections are genuinely useful, up to four per year, three cubic metres each, tied and bundled to the council's rules (Ku-ring-gai Council). Where we earn our keep is everything those caps can't reach: the pile that's four metres not three, the week you can't get a booking, the loose leafy mess that can't be bundled, and the jobs where you'd rather it simply be gone today, loaded by us, not carried to the kerb by you.
One visit, one fixed price agreed before we lift a thing, and the garden left better than we found it. The full comparison lives here.