farmworkers and laborers, crop

Crops: Shade Trees, Flowering Trees, Evergreen Shrubs, Deciduous Flowering Shrubs, Vines, Ground Covers, Ornamental Grasses, Roses, Perennials, Blueberries, Figs

- Unload incoming deliveries of plants, supplies, equipment, and tools.

- Select plant orders, label, and prepare for delivery to customers.

- Load trucks with nursery plants and supplies. - Growing of nursery plants including mixing growing media, potting, watering, pruning, weeding, fertilizing, liming, spacing, staking, trellising, and leaf clean up.

- Set down of newly potted plants on growing areas or inside greenhouses.

- Pick out poor quality or dead plants.

- Maintain growing areas, roads, and ditches.

- Maintain nursery greenhouses (cover, strap, patch, and uncover greenhouse plastic). - Install frost protection blankets as needed.

- Repair nursery barns, greenhouse doors, and structures as needed.

- Assemble and install new greenhouses.

- Move plants from growing areas into the greenhouses for winter protection.

- Weed control throughout the nursery.

- Daily cleanup of work areas, trucks, tractors, wagons, lunchroom, loading dock, empty trash containers.

- Maintain nursery containers and other supply storage areas. - Stand up blown over plants on windy days or following windy weather conditions.

- Install posts, wires, and cables to prevent blow over of some plants.

- Install plant anchors to keep plants standing upright as well as tie individual plants to wires/cables to prevent blow over.

- Perform minor irrigation repairs.

- Clean up following completion of the irrigation repairs.

- Install drip irrigation tubes and emitters on newly potted plants. - Operate nursery pick-up trucks and tractors on-site to pull wagons with nursery plants and supplies on board (operational and safety training provided).

- Set up plant displays and maintain on-site customer pick-up areas.

- Load plants.

- Maintain plant areas with regular production practices including watering, weeding, fertilizing, pruning, and clean up.