Farmworkers/laborers

Job description

This job requires nursery work by the worker.

Crops: Ornamental pot plants. These crops listed may or may not be planted and the employer is not limited to only these crops listed.

There are general conditions of employment, general job specifications and individual requirements that are specific to each job duty:
Worker will perform any combination of the following duties concerned with preparing soil and growth media, cultivating and otherwise participating in horticultural activities under close supervision on acreage, in nursery or in environmentally controlled structure such as a greenhouse and shed; hauls and spreads topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition land; digs, rakes, and screens soil, and fills cold frames and hot beds to prepare them for planting; fills growing tanks with water; plants, sprays, weeds and waters plants, shrubs, and trees. Sows grass seed and plants plugs of sod and cuts, rolls and stacks sod. Traps and poisons pests such as moles, gophers, mice, etc. Plants shrubs and plants in containers. Ties, bunches, wraps and packs flowers, plants, shrubs and trees to fill orders. Moves containerized shrubs and trees using wheelbarrow; digs up shrubs and trees and wraps their roots with burlap. May dip rose cuttings into vat disinfect cuttings prior to storage. May fold and staple corrugated forms to make boxes used for packing horticultural products. May be designated according to employing establishment as grass-farm laborer (agriculture); greenhouse laborer (agriculture); nursery laborer (agriculture); rose-farm laborer (agriculture), etc.
Please see Addendum C

Special Requirements

See Addendum C.