Gardener (Motor Vehicle Operator)

Job Duties

The duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Propagate and grow imported plants as well as healthy and inoculated indicator plants in greenhouses, growth chambers, screen houses, field plots and orchards.
• Prepare soil mixes; sow seeds; plant and transplant seedlings or rooted propagations; budding, grafting, labeling, pruning, fertilizing, and watering herbaceous and woody plants.
• Prepare field plots; plant fruit trees or rootstocks; fertilize, prune, and water trees (using a drip irrigation system).
• Assists crop specialists in conducting lab, greenhouse, and field tests for submicroscopic pathogens: collecting and extracting samples, inoculating and labeling and caring for inoculated test plants.
• Erecting and repairing fences, mowing grass, rouging diseased trees, controlling weeds with physical and chemical removal, and removing trees when field tests are complete.
• Maintains inventories of community greenhouse supplies; runs errands to locations in the surrounding area to obtain supplies or deliver items.
• Mow grass in orchard and operates small to medium tractors and government vehicles (trucks and automobiles).