A few weeks before you plan to plant, work in any cover crops and then blanket your garden bed with at least a 5 centimetre layer of good compost; a full 10 centimetres would be even better. The compost will provide the soil with a fresh infusion of nutrient-rich organic matter, and improve the soil’s ability to handle water and nourish your crops. Top this up with a good layer of some form of mulch - this will help break down the compost and also work as a heat blanket to help the soil warm up.
Next, focus on cultivating your soil. Rain, gravity and other forces can cause soil to become compacted over time, so loosening it before planting should be part of your 'to do' list.
If you plan to plant in a young bed then you need to cultivate this in order to remove rocks or roots. Use a shovel or digging fork to turn the soil when it’s dry and crumbly (never when it’s wet and clumpy, or you’ll be stuck with big, brick-like clods). In established beds, you can use a fork to break up the soil. This will prime your garden soil for planting by helping it dry out and warm up, and permit roots to penetrate the soil more easily.
It's also worth applying an organic fertiliser to the degree that matches the needs of the crops you plan to plant. Light feeders with shallow roots, such as lettuce, will be fine with a small amount of organic fertiliser raked into the top few inches of soil. For widely spaced plants that have big nutrient appetites, such as cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes and capsicums, a good enriching of individual planting holes with a mixture of compost and organic fertiliser just before you set out seedlings will give them a boost and they will thrive. For very heavy feeders, such as sweet corn, use a hoe to make deep trenches in the beds, and place the fertiliser in the trenches so it will be directly below the germinating seeds.
Then just let it all 'sit' for a few weeks while the soil warms up - vegetables like zucchini can go in from mid-September.
Here are a few more tips for getting the best jump start on Spring gardening.
Seedlings
Enthusiastic gardeners will have already been keeping lemon seeds or others they've saved from last year in small pots in sunny spots over the last months of Winter. Now is the time to think about what else you want to grow this Spring and Summer and start planting those seeds so they can sprout. It's still quite cool outside at night so if you are going to leave them in a sunny corner during the day, remember to bring them in or cover them at night.
Have a look at seeds you’ve never planted before, or get cuttings from a friend. The possibilities are endless! Do your research though; some plants do not work well in the same space, and will take up an entire plot. Plan your garden plot on paper so you know exactly where everything will grow.
Give seedlings time to sprout
Don’t rush your plants; give them time to sprout and show a few leaves before planting them out in your garden. By late September you can take your seedlings outside and continue to water them in their trays for a week or two. This will help them acclimatise to the outdoor environment after being kept warm and toasty and sheltered from cold winds.
Clear your garden of dead leaves and weeds
Once your seedlings are underway, have a look at where you plan to place them. Flowers and other plants will do better if there isn't a heap of plants competing for the same soil and nutrients. If you have perennial plants, cut back the dead growth and put it in the compost bin. Now is also a great time to get rid of any other leaf litter or weeds - into the compost bin they go!
Plan ahead for Summer-flowering plants to help your veggies grow
If you are growing to grow vegetables and salad ingredients this Spring and Summer you need some flowers among the mix to draw in bees and other beneficial pollinators to help them along. To make sure you get beautiful, blooming plants and a colourful display in the Summertime, start planting them in early Spring. The key word here is 'beneficial plants' ands this can be almost anything from some lavender to keep ticks at bay to letting the clover run riot in your lawn. If you want to be able to pick some of these to brighten your table and rooms over the next few months, or perfume those sultry Summer nights in the garden, look into what will bloom when and where they need to be placed in the garden - full sun or ??? You can also choose flowers that may add colour and zing to your summer salads - nasturtiums for example.
Clean your gardening tools
Early Spring is a great time to make sure your gardening tools are as they should be. As they may also carry bugs or diseases, give them a good to ensure they don’t have a chance to infect your plants. Those that have edges may also need sharpening so they cut instead of wounding plants.
Sort out your growing shed
If you grow your plants in a greenhouse, make sure to wash it down as Spring arrives. Sweep the floors and benches, and even consider using a mild disinfectant for the inside of the glass so as to get rid of any pests that could potentially harm your plants. As some of these can live in the tiniest of nooks and crannies, make sure this is a thorough clean. Make sure you ventilate your greenhouse for at least a few days before you plant your greens.
Remove any unwanted pests
Hibernating pests such as aphids and slugs begin appearing now and have the opportunity to get at your plants. Keep an eye out for them and treat those that are not beneficial insects - hold on to the others; they are what help your garden grow!
What to plant now (Sydney Coastal - Temperate)
Vegetables: beans (dwarf and climbing), beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, capsicum, carrot, cauliflower, celery, chicory, chilli, Chinese cabbage, cucumber, eggplant, endive, kohlrabi, leek, lettuce, okra, parsnip, potato (tubers), radish, rhubarb (crowns), shallots, silver beet, spring onion, sweet corn, sweet potato, tomato and zucchini.
Herbs: basil, chives, coriander, fennel, gotu kola, heliotrope, lovage, mint, parsley and tarragon.
Perfect Summer Tomatoes
Few vegetables that are prone to more problems than tomatoes and yet they remain the first choice of many for growing at home. The best way to grow great-tasting tomatoes is to choose the best varieties, start the plants off right, and control problems before they happen.
Choosing Which Tomatoes to Grow
Depending on your tastes, whether you will grow them in a pot on your apartment balcony or garden bed and soil types there are a great variety of tomatoes available to grow at home now - Heirloom varieties such as the large and fleshy beefsteak tomato, the Italian staple San Marzano tomato or the cherry tomato will all do well in Pittwater. You also need to think about when you want to harvest your crop - some varieties will be ready earlier while others bear fruit later in Summer.
Those that do well in Sydney are:
Smaller Varieties
- Cherry Cocktail: an early maturing variety that produces large clusters of sweet, bite-sized cocktail fruit.
- Cherry Fountain: a small vine variety that's great for pots and hanging baskets. Will produce an abundance of super-juicy cherry-sized tomatoes.
- Grape: a heavy yielding variety that produces long clusters of sweet fruit.
- Ruby Truss: abundant trusses of small, oval-shaped fruit that's bright red in colour and very juicy.
- Sugar Gloss: a tall and vigorous vine that produces small fruit that's juicy and very sweet.
- Sugar Snack: small, cherry sized fruit with a sweet full flavour.
- Sweet Bite: although smaller than traditional cherry varieties, this early maturing variety produces hundreds of juicy, bite-size fruit.
- Tiny Tim: sweet cherry sized fruit on a dwarf bush – perfect for pots and perfect for balconies with lots of sun.
- Tommy Toe: very sweet, bit- sized balls of fruit that produces hundreds of slightly larger sized tomatoes.
Medium to Larger Varieties
- Apollo: this variety has high yields of full flavoured, round, red fruit early in the season.
- Black Krim: an heirloom Russian variety from the 19th century with a full flavoured, slightly flattened fruit.
- Grosse Lisse: a classic medium to large deep red fruit from mid to late in the season.
- Patio Supreme: this early to mature variety is full flavoured and has bright red, flat fruit on a compact, dwarf bush – perfect for pots.
- Roma: another classic with red medium to large egg-shaped, full flavoured fruit mid to late in the season.
- Totem: classic delicious truss bush variety with medium sized red fruit, perfect for pots.
- Truss: these tomatoes are sweet, juicy and easy to roast. They can be grown in-ground or in a large pot and will need a stake to climb.
Don't Crowd seedlings
If you are starting tomatoes from seed, give the seedlings plenty of room to grow. This means thinning the seedlings to one strong plant per cell or small pot. Snip the weaker, smaller seedlings in favour of the best growers. Crowding will inhibit their growth, which stresses them and leads to disease later on. Transplant tomato seedlings into their own 4-inch pots shortly after they get their first set of true leaves.
Lots of Light please
Tomato seedlings need strong, direct light. Choose a sheltered position you know will get sun all day long, a windowsill if necessary, and keep them out of cool winds for the first few weeks. When you're ready to plant them outside, choose the sunniest part of your vegetable garden as their location.
Some Breeze to Please
Tomato plants need to move and sway in the breeze to develop strong stems. That happens naturally outdoors, but if you start your seedlings inside, you need to provide some type of air circulation. Create a breeze by turning a fan on them for five to 10 minutes, twice a day. That small amount of time will make a big difference later on in the season. If that seems a little too 'high maintenance', gently ruffle the tomato plants by rubbing your hand back and forth across their tops for a few minutes, several times a day. This may be a bit more effort, but their wonderful tomato scent will rub off on you as a bonus. Eau De Tomato Cologne - don't you smell nice!
Warm Enriched Soil to start
Tomatoes need heat. They won't really start to grow until both the soil and air temperatures remain warm. You can speed things up in the soil by covering the planting area with black or red plastic a couple of weeks before you intend to plant. These extra degrees of soil warmth will translate into earlier tomatoes. Tomatoes grow best in full sun (8 hours daily) and well-drained soil rich in organic matter. Make sure you put some compost or decomposed manure into the upper 12 cm of soil prior to planting.
Stem deep
Plant your tomato plants deeper than they come in the pot, all the way up to the top few leaves. When planted this way, tomatoes are able to develop roots all along their stems, more roots mean a stronger plant. You can either dig a deep hole or simply dig a shallow trench and lay the plant sideways. It will quickly straighten itself up and grow toward the sun. Just be careful not to drive your tomato stake into the buried stem when it's time to give them a little help to stand tall.
Mulch those Babies
If you are not going to leave plastic on the soil, hold off on putting down mulch until after the ground has had a chance to warm up. Although mulching conserves water and prevents the soil and soil borne diseases from splashing up on the plants, if you put it down too early, it will also shade and cool the soil. Because tomatoes love heat, allow the sun to warm the soil in the Spring. After temperatures remain warm, both during the day and at night, you can add a layer of mulch to retain moisture.
Remove lower leaves
After your tomato plants reach about 3 feet tall, remove the leaves from the bottom foot of the stem. These are the oldest leaves, and they are usually the first leaves to develop fungus problems. As the plants fill out, the bottom leaves will get the least amount of sun and airflow. Because these leaves sit close to the ground, soil borne pathogens can easily splash up onto them. Removing them helps prevent fungal diseases from taking hold. Spraying weekly with a compost tea also seems to be effective at warding off fungal diseases.
Pinch and Prune for Abundance
Pinch and remove suckers that develop in the crotch joint of two branches. They won’t bear fruit and will take energy away from the rest of the plant. Go easy on pruning the rest of the plant though. You can thin out a few leaves to allow the sun to reach the ripening fruit, but it's the leaves that are photosynthesizing and creating the sugars that give flavour to your tomatoes. Fewer leaves will mean fewer sweet tomatoes.
Water, water, water
Water deeply and regularly while the fruits are developing. Irregular watering—missing a week and trying to make up for it—leads to blossom end rot (a calcium deficiency) and cracking and splitting. The rule of thumb is to ensure your plants get at least 1 inch of water per week, but during hot, dry spells, they may need more. If your plants start to look wilted for most of the day, give them a drink.
After the fruit begins to ripen, you can ease up on the watering. Lessening the water will coax the plant into concentrating its sugars, for better flavour. Use your judgment. Don’t withhold water so much that the plants continually wilt and become stressed or they will drop their blossoms and possibly their fruit.
Setting
Tomatoes' ripening can be at the mercy of the weather, but sometimes you can help things along. Pinching off the tips of the main stems in early Summer will encourage indeterminate tomatoes (those with fruit available continuously) to start putting their energy into flowering. Indeterminate tomatoes like to grow tall before they start setting fruits, so don't worry if your tomato plants aren't flowering for their first month or two. Pinching is also a handy trick toward the end of the Summer when you want the last tomatoes to hurry up and ripen. It shouldn't be a problem getting determinate tomatoes (those that ripen all at once) to set fruit unless weather conditions are unfavourable and cause a condition aptly named "blossom drop."
Growing Perfect Capsicums
These will practically grow without too much trouble, even from seeds. As they experience similar problems to tomatoes, a few tips to ensure this Summer staple features on your table.
Location, Location, Location
Select a place that gets full sun but protection from winds that can break stems. Capsicums grow best in fertile free-draining soil so enrich the soil beforehand with aged manure, compost and/or a certified organic fertiliser. Boost calcium levels in the soil to help prevent blossom end rot later in the season by watering in dolomite or lime and keep an eye on the soil pH to ensure it remains acidic (dolomite and lime increase pH). If your soil pH is already in the right zone then apply gypsum instead which adds calcium but without altering the pH.
Warm Here too
Capsicums are commonly grown from seed or seedlings and you’ll also see small plants available at the nursery if you want to ski[p ahead and have a warm s[pot or pot in the sun ready to go. Sow seeds in a tray or punnet first and plant out when they are about 10cm tall. Capsicums like to be planted into warm soil too. Water in new plants with seaweed booster to help them settle in faster and then mulch around them.
Water and Feed
It's important to maintain regular, deep watering throughout the growing period, especially during hot dry periods. Every 2-3 weeks apply a mix of seaweed to strengthen plants, encourage growth and build natural resistance to pest and disease attack. Don't use fertilisers that are very high in nitrogen as this causes the plants to produce an abundance of leaves with little fruit.
Halfway through the growing season reapply dolomite, lime or gypsum to ensure calcium levels in the soil are plentiful. Capsicums love calcium!
Harvesting
Capsicums are slow to develop fruit and will take up to 3 months depending on the variety chosen and your climate. All capsicums are green to start with before developing their full colour (red, yellow, orange or purple). They can be picked early when green but the longer you wait the sweeter they will be. Be careful when harvesting fruit as the branches can be easily broken. Cut the stem with a knife or secateurs and leave a small stalk on the fruit. Pick regularly to encourage more fruiting.
Pests and Diseases of Capsicums
Being in the same family as tomatoes, capsicums suffer from the same pest and disease problems so watch out for the following:
Aphids, mites and whitefly – look out for these pests and spray an eco-oil at the first sign. Their numbers can multiply quickly and early control is important so they don’t get the chance to damage plants and spread diseases.
Caterpillars – there are some caterpillars that will attack the foliage and developing fruit. Pick off those you can see.
Root knot nematodes – roots that have been attacked by these tiny pests will swell and develop multiple bumps or ‘knots’. Once damaged the roots are unable to efficiently take up moisture and nutrients causing stunted plant growth, reduced yields, regular wilting and early plant death. Prevent nematode build up by incorporating organic matter (compost and manures) when preparing your soil and practicing crop rotation.
Blossom end rot – premature rotting of fruit, from the base, is due to a lack of calcium. This can be because there isn’t enough in the soil to start with (capsicums use up a lot) or the soil frequently dries out preventing the roots from being able to take it up. Boost calcium levels with the liquid dolomite, lime or gypsum. Mulch plants to conserve water and adjust your watering regime to maintain moist soils.
Powdery mildew – this common fungal disease grows as a white or light grey coating over the foliage. Act quickly to prevent its spreading by spraying with a fungicide - there are many on the market now that are eco-freindly and mean you will still be harvesting organic fruit.
Wilts and other diseases – there are quite a few other diseases (bacterial, fungal and viral) which can attack capsicums and are difficult or impossible to control once present. They can cause distorted and stunted growth and fruit, mottled leaves, wilting and plant death. Prevent these problems by controlling sap sucking pests (which can transmit some diseases) and practicing crop rotation (so diseases don’t build up in the soil). Avoid planting capsicums, chillies, tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant in the same spot year after year.
Perfect Spring Onions
These easy-to-grow vegetables that are ready to harvest in just eight weeks make spring onions a firm favourite. Perfect for use as a "filler crop" between rows of slower growing vegetables, and a must-have in a salad or stir-fry, this Summer staple can be grown in a pot or soil and will keep growing as long as you harvest stems from the outside to the in.
In the subtropics, like Sydney, they can be planted pretty much all year round. They grow equally well in containers as in the garden. You can even grow them from your leftover harvested crop; simply slice off the ends of the bulbs, leaving roots attached, stand the bulbs root-end down in a small jar, set on a windowsill and keep the roots moist. After a few days, green shoots will emerge from the tops of the bulbs. Plant them out for a new crop!
If you're growing them in a pot or soil, good food for that soil is important - they like a bit of sun too but don't need the full 8 hours tomatoes and capsicums thrive under, but will still do better with more sun.
Water your vegetables/salad staples an hour after sunup or sundown to prevent leaf or plant scalding or fungus development.
A few pointers to get you started - with all you will need available from your local Johnson Brothers Mitre 10 store, just pop in and talk to their trained friendly staff about your gardening needs this Spring - with their Let Spring Bloom catalogue deals below happy gardening!
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This Movember: Some Lawn Care Tips To Keep Your Grass Greener This Summer - Aerate, Worm Up!, Fertilise, Watering, Mowing Basics Christmas-New Years 2021 Checklists: Preparing The Garden & Home - Entertaining - Gift Ideas For Every Budget DIY Backyard Cricket Pitch DIY Surfboard Rack: Vertical and Horizontal Options Late Summer - Early Autumn Garden Tips: BOM Forecasts Warm Autumn 2022 With Above Average Rainfall Dealing With Dampness Inside The Home March 2022 Maintenance Of Your Home's Outside Areas After Storm Events: Paths, Walls & Windows, Dampness Under The House, Dying Lawns And Plants - The DIY Checklist Fun Project Ideas for Youngsters for Autumn School Holidays: wooden cars, blackboards, bright painted herb pots, grow your own food, make a chessboard Mother's Day 2022: Promise Her An Ever Blooming Native Flowering Plants Garden Retaining Walls Save Your Garden's Soil: DIY Winter Draught Stops To Lessen Your Power Bill Johnson Brothers Trade Day 2022: June 16 At Mona Vale + Winter Garden Jobs For A Flowering Fruitful Spring Winter School Holidays Projects For Youngsters On Rainy Days Dealing With Dampness Inside The Home: Black Mould July 2022 Stop Winter Rain Soil Erosion In Your Garden - Especially On Sloping Blocks Increases In Building Materials Costs Adds Pressure To Fixed Price Contracts - Construction Industry Father's Day 2022 - Some Gift Ideas To Make Dad Feel Special; Some For Those Without A Single Dollar + Some For Those Who Get Pocket Money! Spring 2022: Time To Get In The Garden! What Can Be Done In September - For Youngsters + Oldsters Spring School Holidays 2022: Handmade Toys - For Youngsters + Oldsters Who Want To Lend A Hand Spring Lawn Care: During Mow For Your Bro Month - Movember 2022 Preparing Your Garden and Home For Bushfires 2022 - The Rains Will Cease; Now Is A Good Time To Clean Out Your Gutters + Prep. The Home Preparing Outdoor Areas For Christmas Get-Togethers and Summer Visitors: Wooden Decks, Tiles, Pavers, Outdoor Furniture, Putting Up The Christmas Lights, Garden Spruce Up Summer Garden-House Care: when to water, mow, when and how to harvest that crop, how to keep the ants, ticks and mozzies at bay this season + Christmas Gifts for all budgets and everyone + Johnson Brothers Christmas - New Years Trading Hours End Of Summer Garden To Do List For A Bountiful Indian Summer This Autumn End Of Summer Garden To Do List For The Lawn: How To Combat Armyworm + Small Jobs Boost Winter Resilience - Aerate, Weed, Feed, Patch Bare Spots A Dry Autumn Forecast: How To Look After Your Garden During Low Rain Seasons + What Plants Thrive In Dry Conditions Autumn School Holidays 2023: DIY Project Ideas For Youngsters, Older Youngsters & The Young At Heart: Lava Lamp (60th year of this invention), Wood Building Blocks for Toddlers and Older, Let's go Fly a Kite, Basic Wood Bookshelf, Sundial, Make a rope and wood swing, Making Your Own Windchimes + more It's starting to get Cold: 11 Ways to keep your home warm, safe and save money this Autumn and Winter - what to look for in a heater; the list! Mother's Day 2023 DIY Idea: A Basic Bookshelf You Can Make For All Mum's Books Mould set to rise Inside Your home this Winter: How to Keep Air and Surfaces Healthier A Job For Life as HSC Trial Exams commence: Apprentice Carpenter + Commencement Tool List Pittwater's Noxious Weeds: A Great Time To Get Outdoors, Pull Them Out - Replace With Native Plants DIY Worm Farm: Spring 2023 Garden Prep. + Father's Day 2023 Gift Ideas DIY Father's Day 2023 Gift Ideas: Some For Little Hands + Those Now Grown + The Best Gifts For The Best Dads From JBH Dry Warm Spring Forecast: Time To Prepare Your Home For Bushfire Season - The RFS's List + 6 Easy To Do Extras You Can Do In The Garden + Home To Be Prepared, Get Ready Weekend 2023 Dry Warm Spring Forecast: Put In Drought Tolerant Native Plants + Spring School Holiday Spring Gardening Ideas For Youngsters Because They Like 'Growing Stuff' Too Johnson Brothers' Mona Vale Outlet Wins Store Of The Year Again In 2023: Tradies Breakfast Every Friday - Recycling Of Batteries Available + Spring Garden Care For Your Lawn How To Save Water This Spring-Summer How To Save Water This Spring-Summer: Retaining Water On A Sloping Site + Best Coastal Plants To Retain Soil Christmas Lights Time: Deck Your Home With Rows Of Jolly! + Pittwater MP - Leader Of Opposition Visit Mona Vale Johnson Brothers Store Christmas-New Years-Summer Prep.: Outdoor Areas For Summer Celebrations + How To Keep Your Home Cool During A Heatwave Without An Air-Conditioner + DIY Your Own BBQ Kitchen Garden For Gifts That Grow Past That Giving Day Johnson Brothers Hardware Mona Vale launches e-Waste Recycle Program Summer De-Bug: How to Keep Flies, Ants, Mozzies and Cockroaches where they belong - In the Garden Humid Summer + Above Median Rainfall Predicted For Autumn 2024 Means Mould In The Home: Some Tips To Keep The Family Safer & Healthier Go Outside & Play!: Creating Garden Spaces To Connect Children With Nature This Autumn Fun Project Ideas for Autumn School Holidays: ideas for those who like making things out of wood, growing things, painting things, storing things and one project for really big kids! Mother's Day 2024: A Few Handmade Options + Gift Ideas Mould Inside Your home after all that rain?: How to Keep Air and Surfaces Healthier Winter Draught Stops To Lessen Your Power Bill and Keep The Home Warm + JBH EOFY Catalogue Winter School Holiday Ideas 2024: Woodworking Projects For Beginners, An Artfull Garden, Vegepods For Little Hands, Easy To Make Lego Table Or Student Desk That Can Be Dismantled One Winter Weekend Projects: DIY Carport Father's Day 2024: a Few DIY 'thank you dad' Ideas for little hands + get the garden ready for Spring Johnson Brothers partner with Total Tools: Mona Vale Store Now Open - At: 77 Bassett street, Mona Vale Spring Lawn Care + How to Renew an area with New Turf - Also Johnson Brothers Mitre 10 New Concrete Store at Mona Vale is now open Get Ready Weekend 2024: A Warm Spring Forecast: Time To Prepare Your Home For Bushfire Season - The RFS's List + 6 Easy To Do Extras You Can Do In The Garden + Home To Be Prepared - Plus: Johnson Bros Mitre 10 Mona Vale Wins Retail Store of the Year Go Outside and Play: Creating Garden Spaces To Connect Children With Nature this spring holidays Spring Garden Care + A Salad Garden For Children: Inspire them to Grow what they will Eat this Summer Christmas Cheer 2024: Time to Deck Your Home With Rows Of Jolly! + Keeping Mozzies away - Ticks at Bay This Summer Christmas-New Years Checklist: Preparing the Garden & Home For Visitors + Entertaining + Gift Ideas For Every Budget DIY A Summer-Autumn Salad Garden for a Balcony or at Waist-height A Job For Life: Apprentice Carpenter + Commencement Tool List DIY Repairing Sunken Paver Areas Fix Reducing Ticks in Your Garden (early Autumn): Garden care, Plants that Repel, What to Wear Outdoors BOM's Autumn 2025 Forecast Makes this Season Great for Garden Care + What to Plant Now Pittwater's Noxious Weeds: A Great Time To Get Outdoors, Pull Them Out, Replace With Native Plants Potted Colour for Winter Brightness As Summer crop is harvested: Natives + Perennials + what to plant now for A Winter Vegetables crop Dealing With Dampness Inside Your Home 11 Ways to keep your home Warm, Safe and Save Money this Winter Winter School Holidays: Fun Projects You Can Do Around The Home - Something For Everyone DIY Privacy Screen In 2 Hours Father's Day 2025: A few Gift Ideas to Spoil the best Dad in the world Father's Day 2025: A few Gift Ideas to Spoil the Dad in the world Who Loves Being Outdoors Johnson Bros Mitre 10 Mona Vale - Avalon 70th Birthday Celebrations: September 19 to 22 National Garden Week 2025: School Holiday Garden Ideas for Youngsters + Johnson Brothers Mitre 10 Community Grants Fund Launched Spring Chores For Great A Summer Outdoors: Clean and Reseal Your Wooden Deck Area Some Lawn Care Tips To Keep Your Grass Greener This Spring-Summer Christmas Lights Safety Tips + Johnson Brothers Mitre 10 Black Friday Sale runs until November 30; Perfect to Help You Get Ready for Christmas - New Years Christmas-New Years 2025-26 Checklists: Preparing The Garden & Home - Entertaining - Gift Ideas For Every Budget How To Keep Your Home Cool During Heatwaves Apprentice Carpenter + Fee-Free Courses + Commencement Tool List + How to Look After Your Tools Reducing Ticks in Your Garden: Garden care, Plants that Repel, What to Wear Outdoors DIY Bird Houses + Possum Dreys Autumn Planting For Gardens Full Of Colour and Cheer + Autumn Garden Support: Feed-Mulch-Check the Lawn Mother's Day 2026: Give Mum some new plants for her Ever Blooming Native Flowering Plants Garden DIY Ideas Autumn DIY Jobs: Exterior Jobs to Keep Everything Dry and Cosy Inside the Home Dealing With Dampness Inside The Home + EOFY Sale 2026 Winter School Holidays 2026: Fun Projects For Youngsters Winter Draught Stops To Lessen Your Power Bill & Keep The Home Warm as Snow Winds Blow DIY Fathers' Day ideas 2026 + August Garden Jobs DIY Fathers' Day ideas for the Gardening-BBQing Dad
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John and Bob Johnson - The Johnson Brothers Profile John William Alfred Johnson - The Eulogies for those who could not attend Mass
Australia's Prime Minister Visits Mackellar - Informal Afternoon Tea with Hon. Malcolm Turnbull October 2016
JBH Win Awards August 2018 Trifecta - 2018 Free Trade Day supporters, Mitre 10 Heritage Advert features JBH Mona Vale Store, Hardware Australia’s 2018 NSW Hardware Store of the Year over 2500sqm.
Front Page Issue 294: 2018 Winners Of National Hardware Store Of The Year - Johnson Bros Mitre 10 Mona Vale !!!
National Garden Week's 2019 Focus Is On Children(Oct 13-19): School Holiday Garden Ideas (to get started on) & Congratulations Award Winning Johnson Brothers Mitre10 At Mona Vale - 2019 NSW Store Of the Year, 2019 NSW Trade Centre Of the Year and 2019 Village Garden Centre of the Year
Johnson Bros Mitre 10 were awarded as the best Trade Store in the country: February 2020
Family Hardware Store Wins Best In Australia: Johnson Bros Mitre 10 Mona Vale Crowned ‘National Trade Store Of The Year’ - Celebrating 65th Year in 2020
Anzac Day In Pittwater 2020: Candles, Crosses and Online Commemorative Services: Johnson Brothers Family Donates 20 Thousand Candles to Community Light Up The Dawn Initiative
Front Page Issue 447: ANZAC DAY 2020
Front Page Issue 478: Johnson Brothers Avalon Store Renovations & Mona Vale Store: Everything You Need This Summer In Stock
Front Page Issue 492: JBH Celebrates Upgrade Of Avalon Beach Store
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