1 Predictably Rainless Summers 2 Water-Wise Gardening Science 3 Helping Plants to Need Less Irrigation 4 Water-Wise Gardening Year-Round 5 How to Grow It with Less Irrigation: A-Z 6 My Own Garden Plan 7 The Backyard

Starting a New Gardening Era

Gardening with Less Irrigation

Plants Are Water

Soil's Water-Holding Capacity

How Soil Loses Water

How Plants Obtain Water

Lowered Plant Density: The Key to Water-Wise Gardening

Dealing with a Surprise Water Shortage

Building Bigger Root Systems

Evaluating Potential Rooting Ability

Eliminating Plowpan

Curing Clayey Soils

Spotting a Likely Site

Using Humus to Increase Soil Moisture

Keeping the Subsoil Open with Green Manuring

Mulching

Windbreaks

Fertilizing, Fertigating and Foliar Spraying

Increasing Soil Fertility Saves Water

Vegetables That:

Early Spring: The Easiest Unwatered Garden

Later in Spring: Sprouting Seeds Without Watering

Handmade Footprints

Summer: How to Fluid Drill Seeds

Establishing the Fall and Winter Garden

First, a Word About Varieties

Seed Company Directory*

Plant Spacing: The Key to Water-Wise Gardening

When to Plant

Arugula