Gardening

This especially applies if you have water restrictions to one day a week. (If you have a timer for your sprinkler system). Water in the middle of the night for half of what you think your plants need. Wait several hours, then water again. If it all goes on at once, it will not soak in as well on hard dry soil and some runs off. The first water will sink in and soften the soil and allow the next watering to be more beneficial. It's really hard to see your trees die. If it is allowed to let a hose run around them, then water a longer time, less often.

I'm in Texas, building a new house; I will not be planting any grass, whatever is there will be green if it rains; they had severe water rationing the last two summers here; only hand watering and drip irrigation; I want to have some plantings of xeric native plants and grasses with drip irrigation. No more azaleas and roses in this climate.