You'll rarely be working with the plants directly, as your vendors stock and care for the plants, except for watering. There is a dedicated waterer every day, so you can always volunteer for that and water plants for four hours. Customers will ask you lots of questions about plants and where to locate them. This is hard because the vendors bring the plants in and merchandise them, so there's no accurate map of where specific plants are located. It could change every week depending on the vendor. Morning shifts will be a lot of moving/restocking pallets of soil/pavers/pebbles and cleaning up any messes that the freight team or the closers left in Outside Garden. If my freight team is any indication, there will likely be pallets and products left laying around that you'll need to wrap up and launch into an overhead. You are guaranteed to load pavers/soil/mulch/rock/railroad ties/bender board at all times the day. It's worse in the morning because contractors will come to pick up large quantities of the heaviest stuff we have--railroad ties and pallets of pavers or blocks. Afternoons will be packing down products to restock. Most common packdowns in Garden are in the cleaning supply aisle or the pesticide aisle. Lots of ladder climbing for boxes of bottles of detergent and bug spray. Closers will generally get called all over the store to do whatever tasks the closing manager needs done. There are never enough Associates scheduled for closing shifts. Garden also handles all of the seasonal laydowns--Halloween, Xmas, summer patio stuff, etc. The dept. also handles the BBQs and fencing. Depending on the season, you'll be restocking the seasonal laydown area regularly throughout the day. You'll be called multiple times each shift to unlock your power tool cage for a customer. It's the biggest department in the store. Wearing good running shoes. You'll be walking 20,000 steps or more every day. Answer from 2_Beef_Tacos on reddit.com