Book 2 of the Cost Per series
Cost Per Tomato
A Vegetable Garden Log for People Who Could Have Just Bought Tomatoes
Every gardener has been asked whether the tomatoes are “basically free.” This is the book that lets you answer with a number.
Coming soon on Amazon Use the free calculator
6 × 9 in · 108 pages · paperback · black-and-white interior
What’s inside
- A Startup Sheet for the beds, the soil, the fence, and the drip line that cost more than the beds
- 50 full-page expense entries with Necessary? (Yes / Technically / The plants were fine) and Did It Help? (Yes / No / Ask me in August)
- Twelve harvest logs and twelve Monthly Cost Per Tomato Reports, with excuses for low yield and the store price next to it
- Garden Plan grids, a Crop Roster with a cause-of-death line, a Seed Math Register, Pest & Disease Log, Seed Starting Log, Produce Ledger, and Soil Price Tracker
- Things I Have Said to Justify the Garden, and a Garden Dictionary
Who it’s for
Raised beds, allotments, community plots, and the balcony with eleven containers. A gift for birthdays, Christmas, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, and the day the first invoice arrives.
The Cost Per Tomato calculator
Scanned the code in the book? You’re in the right place. Enter the beds, the soil, the seeds, and the harvest. It gives you cost per tomato and per pound, the store comparison, and how many pounds you need before the garden breaks even.
Use the online calculator Google Sheets version coming soon Download for Excel (.xlsx)
The online version runs in your browser and saves there. The spreadsheets are formulas only, no macros; the Google Sheets link makes your own copy.
