What do Nursery Workers do?
Work in nursery facilities or at customer location planting, cultivating, harvesting, and transplanting trees, shrubs, or plants.
- Plant, spray, weed, fertilize, and water plants, shrubs, and trees, using hand tools and gardening tools.
- Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them.
- Feel plants' leaves and note their coloring to detect the presence of insects or disease.
- Operate tractors and other machinery and equipment to fertilize, cultivate, harvest, and spray fields and plants.
- Inspect plants and bud ties to assess quality.
- Dig, cut, and transplant seedlings, cuttings, trees, and shrubs.
- Move containerized shrubs, plants, and trees, using wheelbarrows or tractors.
- Clean work areas, and maintain grounds and landscaping.
- Haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition soil, using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels.
- Maintain and repair irrigation and climate control systems.
- Record information about plants and plant growth.
- Sell and deliver plants and flowers to customers.
- Fill growing tanks with water.
- Tie and bunch flowers, plants, shrubs, and trees; wrap their roots; and pack them into boxes to fill orders.
- Regulate greenhouse conditions, and indoor and outdoor irrigation systems.
- Dig, rake, and screen soil; and fill cold frames and hot beds in preparation for planting.
- Dip cut flowers into disinfectant, count them into bunches, and place them in boxes to prepare them for storage and shipping.
- Sow grass seed, or plant plugs of grass.
- Maintain inventory, ordering materials as required.
- Cut, roll, and stack sod.
- Provide information and advice to the public regarding the selection, purchase, and care of products.
- Fold and staple corrugated forms to make boxes used for packing horticultural products.
- Trap and destroy pests such as moles, gophers, and mice, using pesticides.
- Graft plants and trees into different rootstock to reduce disease by inserting and tying buds into incisions in rootstock.
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