Job Title: Garden Maintenance Apprentice
Location: Curdridge
Salary: £6.40 per hour
Job type: Full-time, Apprenticeship
Schedule: 8-hour shift
Work Location: In person
With 54 years of experience and thousands of delighted customers, the company is highly regarded for its professional garden design, construction and maintenance.
About the Role:
Our apprentices will work with our Maintenance teams, and will gain experience of a wide range of horticulture and construction skills and knowledge including:
1. Understanding skills need to plant a range of plant, from shrubs and trees to herbaceous plants and lawns. You will learn how to care for them correctly, including basic irrigation methods and identifying plant deficiencies. You will also learn how to prepare a site for planting, including sowing, turfing, preparation of seed beds and mulchin.
2. You will learn how to cultivate and improve soil through a range of methods, both by hand and using mechanical tools.
3. You will gain experience of managing vegetation (weeds or overgrown plants) using power tools, hand tools and garden machinery.
4. You will learn to use a variety of different tools and equipment such as spades, rakes, shovels, measuring equipment (such as tape measures and spirit levels), mowers, handheld strimmers and h...