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\name{Toby}{Mercer}
\address{41 Example Street, Millford, Freedonia}{}{}

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\small{Happiest at a potting bench with a tray of cuttings, or out on a wet afternoon planting bulbs, after a working life spent on farms, in glasshouses and in public parks. Keeps bees on an allotment at home and grows sweet peas every summer, sowing them in pots each October, later than the books say.}

\section{Skills}
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{\small
\begin{itemize}
    \item Propagation from seed, softwood cuttings, grafting and careful division.
    \item Glasshouse growing, including ventilation, shading and watering with a can.
    \item Pruning of fruit trees, old roses, climbing plants and formal hedges.
    \item Compost making, leaf mould and patient soil improvement on heavy clay.
    \item Pest and disease recognition, treated without sprays where possible.
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\section{Experience}
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\cventry{1995-2001}{Salad Grower}{Westmere Farm}{Eastbrook, Freedonia}{}{}
{\small
\begin{itemize}
    \item Grew salad crops, brassicas and cut flowers in the open ground and under glass, through every season, in sun and rain alike.
    \item Sowed the early crops in the cold frames each spring and hardened them off before planting out.
    \item Mulched the rose beds each spring with leaf mould from the garden's own bays.
    \item Tied in the climbing roses on the walls every autumn.
    \item Cut the yew hedges once a year in late summer.
    \item Sowed wildflower seed along the orchard edges.
    \item Saved seed from the border plants each autumn and dried it in paper bags.
    \item Divided the hostas and day lilies whenever the clumps grew crowded.
    \item Cleared the gutters of the glasshouse roofs after the autumn gales.
    \item Staked the tall delphiniums before the early summer winds.
    \item Raked the gravel paths smooth after every heavy rain.
    \item Lifted and stored the dahlia tubers before the first frosts.
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\cventry{1988-1994}{Park Gardener}{Oakfield Park}{Riverton, Freedonia}{}{}
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\begin{itemize}
    \item Mowed, edged and weeded the formal lawns and flower beds around the bandstand, and swept the leaves from the paths every autumn.
    \item Planted the spring and summer bedding displays twice a year, lifting the tulips and storing them for reuse.
    \item Laid a new hawthorn hedge along the east boundary and trimmed it every summer.
    \item Dug a new wildlife pond by the orchard and planted its margins with irises and marsh marigolds.
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\cventry{1981-1987}{Glasshouse Keeper}{Ferndale Plants}{Hartwell, Freedonia}{}{}
{\small
\begin{itemize}
    \item Grew the bedding plants and pot plants for the plant shop from seed and cuttings, and watered the benches from the rain butts.
    \item Rooted cuttings under upturned jam jars on the potting-shed sill.
    \item Scrubbed and re-glazed the glasshouse panes each spring.
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\cventry{1975-1980}{Kitchen Gardener}{Lindenhall Estate}{Ashcombe, Freedonia}{}{}
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\begin{itemize}
    \item Worked in the kitchen garden in all weathers, digging, sowing in rows, thinning the seedlings and bringing in the crops.
    \item Pruned the espalier pears and the fan-trained peaches on the south wall, and tied in the new growth.
    \item Laid a new cobbled path through the kitchen garden, bedding each cobble in sharp sand, grading the camber so that rain ran off into the borders, and edging it with old roof tiles so that it would last for years without weeds pushing up through the joints, then lining both sides with low box hedging grown from cuttings.
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\cventry{1970-1974}{Orchard Worker}{Elmstead Orchards}{Wexley, Freedonia}{}{}
{\small
\begin{itemize}
    \item Picked, graded and stored the apples and pears through each autumn.
    \item Cut the long grass between the trees and cleared the ditches each winter.
\end{itemize}\par}
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\section{Education}
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\cventry{1969}{Certificate in Practical Horticulture}{Brambleton College of Horticulture}{Brambleton, Freedonia}{}{}

\section{Favourite plants}
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\begin{itemize}
    \item Old shrub roses and ramblers, especially the ones that flower once and then set hips.
    \item Hardy ferns of every kind, from the tiny wall ferns to the big royal fern by water.
    \item Alpines grown in troughs of grit, where they stay small, tight and long-lived.
    \item Espalier pears and fan-trained peaches on a warm south-facing stone wall.
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\section{Tools kept close at hand}
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\begin{itemize}
    \item A worn border spade and a digging fork with an ash handle.
    \item Bypass secateurs, a folding pruning saw and a sharp budding knife.
    \item A long-handled hoe for the vegetable rows and a short one for the frames.
    \item A wheelbarrow with a pneumatic tyre and a split wooden handle bound in twine.
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\section{Vegetables grown for the table}
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    \item Broad beans sown in late autumn for an early crop.
    \item Parsnips left in the ground until the first frosts have sweetened them.
    \item Runner beans on hazel poles cut from the hedge.
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\section{Grown at home}
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    \item Sweet peas, runner beans and too many courgettes.
    \item Early potatoes in sacks and salad leaves in old fish boxes.
    \item A small bed of alpines raised from seed in a cold frame.
    \item Rhubarb forced under an old chimney pot at the end of every winter.
    \item Strawberries in a raised bed, netted against the blackbirds.
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\section{Interests}
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{\small
\begin{itemize}
    \item Fell walking, beekeeping and painting wild flowers in watercolour.
\end{itemize}\par}
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