Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Tips For Becoming A Plant Care Professional

By George Dodson


A plant care specialist is a national or private worker who works as a groundskeeper. As a plant care specialist you should look after all the plants and save them from different diseases and pest. Additionally, your duty ranges from new landscape designing to maintaining them.

Intellectual learning

For this job it is not must for you to get higher education in any subject, but you should have a knowledge of common disease pests and nomenclature of tree. If you want rapid promotion, I suggest you get a biology degree that are available in different universities. You desired degrees are available on agriculture and forestry department of different university. If you need driving on large trucks, I suggest you to take a CDL licenses.

Necessary proficiency

If you are an outdoor lover, you can do better in this field. When you are working as a tree care specialist; it is must for you to know about the planting system and lawn maintaining system. You should be fit enough to bear the high weight like large tree or laying sod. You have to know the use of power tools, ladder and ropes for accomplishing your work. Take time and analysis on the occurring problems. Then you can go for solution. You should follow the orders as it is a team work. Your communication skill should enough good and it is preferable to have workability in adverse condition.

Your work

The plant care specialists use to carry the sods, fertilize the plants, digging hole for new plantings the entire day long. You may have to work everyday or once in a week. To remove higher branches you have to prune them.

Identify the diseases and pest affected trees.

You have to brace the breaking branches with a stronger one and repair them.

Your duty includes giving fertilizer to plant. You should be capable of calculating the fiscal value of the trees.

Your responsibilities includes financial planning.

Holding and planning seminars is a must. You may have to work randomly both inside and outside. Your main task is to scrutinize the trees regularly, identify their problems and take effective measures to minimize the problem. You can accomplish these operations by pruning or trimming. For this you have to climb up trees. You may have to do some administrative work beside your outdoor duties.

Tree care specialist use powerful and dangerous machines and chemicals. They also like to lift twist and climb on trees. Two or more tree care professionals may work in an operation simultaneously.




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