ONE MAN’S GARDEN by Henry Mitchell...

ONE MAN’S GARDEN by Henry Mitchell (Houghton Mifflin: $10.95; 262 pp.). The author of the “Earthman” feature in the Washington Post, Mitchell writes with bemused affection about plants, soils, weeds, problems, solutions. Reviewing a batch of poorly organized garden planners and calendars, he observes, “If gardeners spent less time running around doing things they think they are supposed to do and more time contemplating the beauty of the world’s plants, they’d get more out of their gardens and be less of a pest to the civilized world.”