Nursery Workers

Work in nursery facilities or at customer location planting, cultivating, harvesting, and transplanting trees, shrubs, or plants.

Job Task

• Hauls and spreads topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition soil, using wheelbarrow or cart and shovel.
• Digs, rakes, and screens soil and fills cold frames and hot beds to prepare them for planting.
• Sows grass seed or plants plugs of grass and cuts, rolls, and stacks sod.
• Plants, sprays, weeds, and waters plants, shrubs, and trees, using hand tools and gardening tools.
• Cuts and opens incision in rootstock, using budding knife, and inserts and ties bud.
• Fills growing tanks with water.
• Inspects bud tie to ensure quality.
• Moves containerized shrubs, plants, and trees, using wheelbarrow.
• Traps and destroys pests, such as moles, gophers, and mice, using pesticides.
• Ties, bunches, wraps roots, and packs flowers, plants, shrubs, and trees to fill orders.
• Folds and staples corrugated forms to make boxes used for packing horticultural products.
• Dips rose cuttings into vat to disinfect prior to storage.

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