Nursery workers

About the role

Nursery workers are needed to support the cultivation and maintenance of various plant species. This includes tasks such as planting, cultivating, hoeing, transplanting, fertilizing, propagating, preparing soil, weeding, thinning, spraying, and watering.

Responsibilities

• Plant, cultivate, and maintain nursery stock and/or bedding plants in condition for shipping and sale to customers.
• Pot seedlings or liners by hand or mechanical planter.
• Propagate plants from cuttings.
• Perform general plant maintenance.
• Prune, trim, space, transplant, weed, and cull plants to ensure availability of marketable products.
• Irrigate and apply fertilizer.
• Pack, label, tag, pull, and store plants by variety.
• Count, grade, and inventory plants.
• Prepare plants for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary.
• Dig plants.
• Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twine and/or staples.
• Understand nursery quality control standards and have working knowledge of production procedures.
• Select, harvest, assemble, and prepare plants pursuant to customer needs.
• Lift, carry, and load/unload nursery stock and/or supplies.
• Operate and maintain agricultural equipment with or without direction.
• Obey all safety rules and basic instructions and be able to recognize, understand and comply with safety, pesticide warning reentry and other essential postings.

Requirements

• 3 months experience work in a nursery/greenhouse
• Lifting 70lbs
• Exposure to extreme temperatures, extensive pushing or pulling, extensive sitting or walking, frequent stooping or bending over, repetitive movements.

Qualifications

The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov. For assistance with this job order, please email If applicable, please include the interested applicants name and job order number in the email.

Skills

Workers must understand nursery quality control standards and have working knowledge of production procedures.

Benefits

Full-time seasonal positions available from March 20, 2026 to November 30, 2026. Crops/Commodities: nursery stock, including trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, house plants, and seedling vegetable plants.

Pay

$18.75 +

Schedule

First Shift (Day)