Gardening Without Irrigation: Or Without Much, Anyway

Gardening Without Irrigation is a novel written by Steve Solomon. Soil moisture loss averages 1-1/2 inches per week during summer in the eastern U.S. West of the Cascades, bare soil may not lose much moisture at all. By creatively using and conserving this moisture, some Northwest gardeners can go through an entire summer without irrigation. A plant wilts out of self-preservation when it can no lo...