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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for by William Alexander
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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and…

by William Alexander

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Everyone loves this book. Mathematicians, Replublicans, lesbians, the elderly, communists. Me. ( )
  pilarflores | Sep 29, 2009 |
Sometimes this book hit me a little too close for comfort, but overall a pretty decent read. His stories felt like the same garden miseries my wife, I, and our friends have experienced collectively - battles with groundhogs (I loved his "Superchuck"), deer, squirrels, and various other varmints. It was disappointing that he couldn't live up to his organic ideals, but I guess those are the choices we all have to make. ( )
  tgraettinger | Sep 27, 2009 |
Not a how to gardening book. This is a gardening memoir. William Alexander tells the story of how his garden came to be. He chronicles the changes in his garden and in himself over the course of twenty years.

Since I enjoy peeking into other people's lives, I enjoyed this book. ( )
  mldg | Jul 13, 2009 |
Enjoyed this book very much - great sense of humour, down to earth and oh so true. I won't feel so bad the next time I'm at the local farmer's market playing $5.99/lb for tomatoes! ( )
  LemonSalt | Jul 6, 2009 |
So true and very sweet. ( )
  StellaAura | May 28, 2009 |
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I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be. -- Robert Creeley, "The Door"
There's a fine line between gardening and madness. -- Cliff Claven in Cheers
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For Anne, Zach, and Katie
And to the memory of my father, William Alexander
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"Why can't Dad be more like other dads?" Katie asked my wife recently.
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