Experienced Gardener
- Employer
- Private Estate - Wilshire nr Bath
- Location
- Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
- Salary
- Excellent Salary Package
- Closing date
- 23 Aug 2018
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Gardening Jobs
- Sector
- Horticultural Specialist, Garden Centres & Nurseries, Growing
We are looking for an experienced gardener who has ambition to be at the beginning of an exciting new project focusing on growing British speciality cut flowers using sustainable/organic methods. The applicant should have an interest in floristry and soil preparation. You will join a small team on a private estate in Wiltshire, with the responsibility of setting up the project. This is a live-out position.
Duties:
•Bed preparation,fertilising,transplanting,weeding/mulching irrigation and pest/disease management.
•Greenhouse production,seed starting,plant propagation and watering.
•Harvest flowers and shrubs using proper harvest systems and post harvest treatments.
•Operate tractors,quad bikes delivery vans and other equipment as needed.
•Attend weekend farmers markets if needed.
Qualifications:
•Having dealt with a cutting garden is essential.
•Hardworking and self-motivated with high attention to detail and quality control.
•Ability to work individually or in a team environment efficiently,quickly and with a sense of purpose and urgency.
•When needed is prepared to work long hours while maintaining a positive can-do attitude in all weather conditions.
•Ability to perform physically demanding and repetitive tasks(i.e. bending,kneeling) and
•Proficient at working to a budget and keeping accounts.
•Must have valid drivers licence
:Working Hours
•Full-Time 5-6 days 40-60 hrs per week. Start time will be seasonally variable beginning at 8am and moving to 6am during peak harvest season. Hours will be less during to front and the tail ends of the season.
•Off season work will include garden jobs,under estate managers guidance.
Please apply with CV, covering letter and references.
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