MAXWELL'S PLASTIC BUCKET

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Washing vegetables
Tool or glove receptacle
Harvest bucket, chair
Collect green weeds and take 'em to the compost pile -- i - i - ile

Fruit tree watering
Carry sifted compost in
Marker or trash can
Collecting slugs to feed 'em to ducks in a while -- i - i - ile

For storing grains and flours and beans
And relics of the past
The uses of Maxwell's plastic bucket have never been surpassed
I just wish Maxwell's plastic bucket were really built to last

Shade new transplants with
Pot up big tomatoes in
Store kelp meal and lime
Cover plants when frost is about to come -- uh uh umm

Carry animal feed
Store most any type of seed
Wash your shorts and socks
Use to prop up glass on the old cold frame -- a - a - ame

For storing raisins, crackers, or salt
Or Junior's plaster cast
The uses of Maxwell's plastic bucket have never been surpassed
I just wish Maxwell's plastic bucket were really built to last

Carry stuff anywhere
Stack 'em where there's no ladder
Water storage, bin
Use it as a soapbox or podium -- uh uh umm

Dispense rock phosphate from
Store your extra caulking gun
Pick up rusty nails
Rise bread dough or soak your infected thumb -- uh uh umm

It's better than just about any other junk
That farmers have amassed
The uses of Maxwell's plastic bucket have never been surpassed
I just wish Maxwell's plastic bucket were really built to last

Comments: New transplants often need to be shaded from direct sun until they recover from transplant shock, which is why transplanting is usually best done in the evening. Kelp meal contains many trace minerals. Cold frames are season-extending mini-greenhouses, often placed directly over a garden bed. Rock phosphate is a mineral form of phosphorus, an essential plant nutrient.
Rutabaga trades his drums for buckets when performing this in concert.