garden labourer
Garden labourers perform simple tasks in cultivating and maintaining flowers, trees and shrubs. This work can take place in either parks or private gardens.
Also called: garden worker, landscaping operative, gardening assistant, manual garden labourer, landscaping labourer, landscape labourer, garden laborer, gardening worker
- 25
- essential skills
- 25
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- landscape gardenerWhat changes?14 skills in common
- groundsman/groundswoman10 skills in common
- horticulture production managerWhat changes?10 skills in common
- horticulture production team leaderWhat changes?10 skills in common
- agronomic crop production team leader9 skills in common
- hop farmer7 skills in common
- fruit production team leader6 skills in common
- horticulture worker6 skills in common
Essential skills
25- grow plants
- handling chemical products for soil and plants
- maintain ground
- maintain plant health
- maintain plant soil nutrition
- maintain plants' growth
- maintain turf and grass
- nurse plants
- operate hand pruning equipment
- operate turf management equipment
- pest control in plants
- plant according to guidelines
- plant green plants
- plant propagation
- plant species
- prepare planting area
- prepare sites for planting of grass
- prepare the ground
- propagate plants
- prune hedges and trees
- prune plants
- soil structure
- use gardening equipment
- watering principles
- work in outdoor conditions
Optional skills
25- assist in interior plant projects
- build fences
- build garden masonry
- create garden areas
- de-limb trees
- ecology
- establish green roof
- establish vertical gardens
- execute disease and pest control activities
- greenhouse types
- herbicides sprayers
- horticulture principles
- landscaping materials
- lawn care
- maintain gardening equipment
- maintain the greenhouse
- maintain turf management equipment
- nurse trees
- perform weed control operations
- plant disease control
- provide lawn care
- pruning techniques
- pruning types
- transport physical resources within the work area
- turf management
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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