$64 Tomato How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden

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ISBN: 9781565125575

ISBN-10: 1565125576

ISBN-13: 9781565125575

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Authors: William Alexander

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William Alexander had a simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard. It was a dream that would lead to life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, and weeds; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up fresh thyme; skirmishes with neighbors who feed the vermin (i.e., deer); the near electrocution of the tree man; and the pity of his wife and children. When Alexander decided to run a cost-benefit analysis, adding up everything from the Havahart animal trap ($60) to the Velcro tomato wraps ($5) to the steel edging ($1,200), then amortizing it over the life of his garden, it came as quite a shock to learn that it cost him a staggering $64 to grow…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 3/2/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

William Alexander has been gardening and small-scale farming for over twenty-five years. He lives with his wife and their two children in New York's Hudson Valley.



Prologue: Gentleman Farmer


Whore in the Bedroom, Horticulturist in the Garden


We Know Where You Live


One Man's Weed Is Jean-Georges's Salad


No Such Thing as Organic Apples


You May Be Smarter, But He's Got More Time


Nature Abhors a Meadow (But Loves a Good Fire)


Shell-Shocked: A Return to the Front (Burner)


Christopher Walken, Gardener


Cereal Killer


Statuary Rape


Harvest Jam


The Existentialist in the Garden


The $64 Tomato


Childbirth. Da Vinci. Potatoes


Acknowledgments


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