As its name implies, "The $64 Tomato'' is not a how-to garden book. It is, rather, a wry memoir in which every reader who's spent way more to grow a plant than he could purchase it for at the supermarket will recognize his own successes, failures and foibles.

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My only quarrel with this engaging rainy-day read is that it's the book I should have written. The royalties might have brought the cost of my tomatoes down to $64 each.

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