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Slate's Guide To Planting a Beginner's GardenThe complete series.

By Constance Casey
Updated Monday, May 28, 2007, at 7:22 AM ET

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Constance Casey, a former newspaper editor, was a New York City Department of Parks gardener for five years. E-mail gardening questions to .
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