Gardeners, horticultural and nursery growers

Duties and tasks

• Constructing features and facilities within gardens, such as paths or paved areas, walls, rockeries, garden beds, ponds and water features, sheds and fences
• Storing and carrying out some processing of produce
• Harvesting crops, inspecting, cleaning, grading, packaging, storing and loading products for sale or delivery to market
• Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of produce and supplies and maintaining and evaluating records of activities and transactions
• Preparing land by conditioning soil, levelling ground and installing and operating irrigation and drainage systems
• Checking the health of plants and trees, identifying and treating weeds, pests and diseases, and applying mulch and fertilizers
• Planting trees, hedges, garden plants and grass
• Maintaining buildings, greenhouses and other structures, equipment and water supply systems
• Pruning and trimming trees, shrubs and hedges, installing plant supports and protection, and rolling, mowing, aerating and edging lawns
• Producing saplings, bulbs and seeds and raising plants from seeds or cuttings
• Monitoring market activity and conditions determining kinds and amounts of vegetables, horticultural and nursery products to be grown and planning and coordinating production accordingly
• Training and supervising workers in production, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions and hiring and discharging workers and contractors