PVC PAM

(Music: POLYTHENE PAM, Lennon-McCartney) (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)

Well, you should see PVC Pam
Half her gadgets come from Holland or Japan
With her beds draped in plastic
Her control measures drastic
Her garden makes me wonder where I am
Yeah, yeah, yeah

She doses everything twice a day
With some fungicidal foliar spray
She mixes it herself
From seven bottles on a shelf
It's organic so it must be ok
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Comments: PVC Pam is a fictitious character. For those unfamiliar with postmodern gardening-farming techniques, clear plastic is frequently used as cloche material (for season extension, warmer temperatures for subtropical crops, or protection from rain), and black plastic as a soil-warming, weed-blocking, evaporation-inhibiting mulch. Bent pipes made of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) are often employed as hoop supports for plastic cloches.

 
Excerpted from The Beetless' Gardening Book: An Organic Gardening Songbook/Guidebook, copyright 1997 by Chris Roth (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)