HOME / Gardening : All things green. Slate's Guide To Planting a Beginner's Garden The complete series. By Constance Casey|Updated Monday, May 28, 2007, at 7:22 AM Tweet Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Phase 6 Phase 7 Phase 8 Phase 9 Phase 10 Tweet MYSLATE Save this story. Follow all Gardening articles. Follow the News and Politics section. Follow stories by Constance Casey. MySlate is a new tool that lets you track your favorite parts of Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. SLATE'S MOST VIRAL Is Your State Bird a Stupid State Bird? What It Should Be Instead. Enterprise vs. Millennium Falcon: Which is the Fastest? Eleanor Roosevelt's License to Pack Heat Constance Casey is a former New York City Department of Parks gardener and writes the monthly "Species" column for Landscape Architecture Magazine. Click here to load comments.