I’ve been wanting to read this book for a while, and I finally got around to it. I found it absolutely delightful. It’s not a how-to-garden kind of book, but rather a memoir about the author’s experience with his kitchen garden. Any garden advice you do glean from it isn’t bad–he’s done his research–and in some ways I find it more useful to see what someone has done, rather than have someone tell me how to do things.
Does the tomato really cost $64? So, he itemizes his garden expenses, subtracts the value of the other produce based on produce stand prices, and assigns the reaming value to his brandywine tomatoes. If you didn’t need an electric fence for deer, the value would go down tremendously.
Liz Braithwaite 
I’ve been wondering about this book too. You’ve solved the mystery of why it was so expensive – deer fencing. Yipes! I’m glad I don’t have to deal with that.
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I’ve been wanting to read this book to so I’m glad to see this. I hope he gets into the satisfaction aspect. Can we somehow squeeze that into the equation? Costs plus the deer fencing, minus the zen of tending that special tomato?
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I think the whole point of the book was the satisfaction of gardening, but that it takes a whole lot of effort too. I think everyone has a very real relationship with their garden–they love being out there, but its lots of work and sometimes gets old too.
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