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Rent The $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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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Workman Pub Co
Published: Mar 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
Retail Price: $24.99
Pages: 288
Synopsis
William Alexander's hilarious gardening memoir about his battles with nature is named after the individual cost of each tomato in his tiny crop of heirloom Brandywines decimated by a woodchuck with good taste. Alexander's Hudson Valley pastoral gardening fantasies did not involve scores of deer, a very persistent and wildly intelligent woodchuck, or the acres of insect life his spread attracted. His adventures with pesticides, landscaping, and hand-pollination of a tricky orchard make for engaging reading.