Thursday, September 11, 2014

Criteria For Becoming A Plant Concern Specialist

By George Dodson


Plant care specialist generally employed in different states, cities even in landscape companies as a plant protector. When you are a plant care specialist your main task is to save the tree from different diseases and pest in all season. This job also includes landscape designing and maintaining.

Academic knowledge

Though higher education is not mandatory for being a good tree care specialist but, you should good enough to identify, care and maintain the trees. If you want rapid promotion, I suggest you get a biology degree that are available in different universities. Forestry and Agriculture department facilities you all the degrees. It is must for you to take a CDL license when you have to drive on large roads.

Required dexterity

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. It is must for you become physically strong as you have to carry heavy weights. You have to know the use of power tools, ladder and ropes for accomplishing your work. You should logical enough on problem identification and their solutions. 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. On the basis of plant species and atmospheric condition you can do your duty daily or weekly. Pruning the higher branches of trees.

You should have a good identification knowledge to mark the disease affected trees.

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

It is your responsibility to fertilize the trees properly. Your responsibility includes the calculating of the monetary value of trees.

Your responsibilities includes financial planning.

You should be able to hold seminar in school and community level. As a plant care specialist you have to do research on plant diseases and their care. It is important to check the health status of plants regularly. You should prepare yourself for working both indoor and outdoors. You should keep yourself ready for climbing up on the tree for trimming them. Sometimes you need to remove the entire tree. As a tree care specialist you are bound to work both in indoor and outdoor. Your indoor work includes some administrative duties.

This is a very risky job. Because, this job includes a lot of twisting, climbing and lifting. Two or more tree care professionals may work in an operation simultaneously.




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