Garden labourer
Code 9214.1
Garden labourers perform simple tasks in cultivating and maintaining flowers, trees and shrubs. This work can take place in either parks or private gardens.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- plant species
- soil structure
- plant propagation
- watering principles
- pest control in plants
Skills and competences
- nurse plants
- grow plants
- maintain plants' growth
- operate turf management equipment
- handling chemical products for soil and plants
- maintain turf and grass
- maintain plant soil nutrition
- maintain ground
- plant green plants
- plant according to guidelines
- prune plants
- prune hedges and trees
- prepare the ground
- prepare sites for planting of grass
- prepare planting area
- maintain plant health
- propagate plants
- operate hand pruning equipment
- use gardening equipment
Transversal competences
- work in outdoor conditions
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences