Landscape Contractor

Alternative titles: Garden Contractor, Landscape installer, Hard landscaping contractor

Specialisations: Landscaper, Parks Caretaker, Gardener, Turf Layer, Landscaping supervisor, Groundsman / Woman, Gardening Contractor, Agricultural Horticulture Worker

• Pruning and trimming trees, shrubs and hedges, installing plant supports and protection, and rolling, mowing aerating and edging lawns
• Harvesting crops inspecting, cleaning, grading, packaging, storing and loading products for sale or delivery to market
• Training and supervising workers in production, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions and hiring and discharging workers and contractors
• Preparing land by conditioning soil, levelling ground and installing and operating irrigation and drainage systems
• Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of produce and supplies and maintaining and evaluating records of activities and transactions
• Constructing features and facilities within gardens, such as paths or paved areas, walls, rockeries, garden beds ponds and water features, sheds and fences
• Producing saplings, bulbs and seeds and raising plants from seeds or cuttings
• Storing and carrying out some processing of produce
• Maintaining buildings, greenhouses and other structures, equipment and water supply systems
• Monitoring market activity and conditions determining kinds and amounts of vegetables, horticultural and nursery products to be grown and planning and coordinating production accordingly
• Planting trees, hedges, garden plants, grass
• Checking the health of plants and trees, identifying and treating weeds, pests and diseases, and applying mulch and fertilizers