Upper Lockyer

Upper Lockyer sits in the upper catchment, where the tributary fans are built from basalt washed down off the range. The valley survey treats these upper-reach fans as their own group — dark, well-structured Dermosols of loam to light clay, porous and well drained, with stone and cobble common on the surface and through the profile. That basalt influence gives them good moisture-holding, better than the drier western flats, though gravelly profiles can drain excessively. The surface runs moderately acid, turning neutral to alkaline at depth. Warmer than the plateau. Couch, QLD blue couch and kikuyu are the common grasses, and the weed timing runs warm.

Upper Lockyer is a rural locality in the upper Lockyer Valley, about 20km northeast of Toowoomba — lifestyle blocks and grazing land on the valley floor and lower slopes.

Fast-drying slopes want wetting agents; boggy low creek-side spots may need drainage attention. Spongy turf is thatch (scarify), and pale growth is hunger (feed).

Commercial-grade zero-turn and acreage mowing · commercial and compact push mowing · bladed edging and whipper snipping · selective weed spraying and control · hedge trimming · rubbish removal and dump runs.