// Unit group · 9214

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.

9 Elementary Occupations / 92 Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Labourers / 921 Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Labourers / All level 4

// Working conditions

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// Hand tools

  1. 1General Hand Tool Operation

loading, unloading and moving supplies, produce and equipment

preparing garden sites and plots using hand tools and simple machines

assisting with planting and transplanting flowers, shrubs, trees and lawns

maintaining gardens by watering, weeding and mowing lawns

cleaning gardens and removing rubbish

assisting with propagating, planting and potting seeds, bulbs and cuttings

tending plants by hand watering and weeding

harvesting and packaging plants for sale and transport

performing minor repairs on fixtures, buildings, equipment and fences.

Included occupations

Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Garden labourer
- Horticultural labourer
- Lawn mower
- Nursery labourer

Excluded occupations

Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Horticulturist - 6113
- Landscape gardener - 6113
- Market gardener - 6113
- Crop farm labourer - 9211

Indexed job titles 28