Garden Workers (Occupation Code : 821401)
The path to becoming a Garden Workers
Description
Assists in cultivating and maintaining gardens.Tasks
Maintaining gardens by watering, weeding and trimming plants and shrubs in flowerbeds.Mowing lawns and trimming grass around flowerbeds and paving.
Pruning trees and trimming shrubs and hedges.
Putting compost on flowerbeds and top dressing on lawns.
Controlling garden pests by spraying.
Assisting with planting and transplanting flowers, shrubs, trees and lawns.
Assisting with propagating, planting and potting seedlings, bulbs and cuttings.
Removing garden rubbish and maintaining a compost heap.
Performing minor repairs to and painting garden fixtures, buildings and fences.
Preparing garden sites and plots using hand tools and simple machines.
Alternate Occupation Names
Garden Services Worker
Lawn Mower
Learning Pathways
No formal qualification 1
Step 1 : Admission Requirements 2
- No formal education
You don't need any formal schooling or formal qualifications to enter this occupation. However, employers may set their own entry requirements when they recruit people for positions in this occupation.
Step 2 : Workplace experience
- Workplace Learning - General
Through workplace learning, you will gain knowledge and skills from informal and incidental learning opportunities, as well as through formal internal training that might be offered by your employer.
Learnership 2
Step 1 : Admission Requirements 2
- Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) Level 3
Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) Level 3
Step 2 : Learnerships
- Learnership - Horticulture Level 1
A learnership is a structured learning programme, consisting of theoretical and practical components, that leads to a qualification. In order to enter a learnership you need an employer.