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Garden and horticultural labourers
Garden and horticultural labourers perform simple and routine tasks in operations to cultivate and maintain trees, shrubs, flowers and other plants in parks and private gardens, to produce saplings, bulbs and seeds, or grow vegetables and flowers by intensive cultivation techniques.
Role Responsibilities
- Maintaining gardens by watering, weeding and mowing lawns
- Performing minor repairs on fixtures, buildings, equipment and fences
- Harvesting and packaging plants for sale and transport
- Preparing garden sites and plots using hand tools and simple machines
- Tending plants by hand watering and weeding
- Assisting with planting and transplanting flowers, shrubs, trees and lawns
- Loading, unloading and moving supplies, produce and equipment
- Cleaning gardens and removing rubbish
- Assisting with propagating, planting and potting seeds, bulbs and cuttings