Description
Plant Nursery Workers propagate, grow, and prepare ornamental and landscape plants in greenhouse and outdoor nursery environments. They plant, pot, label, water, fertilize, prune, and monitor plant health using hand tools and basic equipment. Duties include mixing media, spacing and moving stock, scouting and treating pests and diseases, maintaining irrigation and climate controls, and cleaning, grading, and packing orders for shipment or sale. May assemble trellises, repair benches and irrigation lines, and assist with inventory and customer service.
Skills
Content
- • Speaking
Technical Skills
- • Operations Monitoring
Abilities
Verbal Abilities
- • Oral Comprehension
- • Oral Expression
Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities
- • Problem Sensitivity
- • Deductive Reasoning
Fine Manipulative Abilities
- • Arm-Hand Steadiness
- • Manual Dexterity
- • Finger Dexterity
Control Movement Abilities
- • Control Precision
- • Multilimb Coordination
- • Rate Control
Reaction Time and Speed Abilities
- • Reaction Time
Physical Strength Abilities
- • Static Strength
- • Explosive Strength
- • Dynamic Strength
- • Trunk Strength
Endurance
- • Stamina
Flexibility, Balance, and Coordination
- • Extent Flexibility
- • Gross Body Coordination
- • Gross Body Equilibrium
Visual Abilities
- • Near Vision
- • Far Vision
Auditory and Speech Abilities
- • Speech Recognition
- • Speech Clarity
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
