I think those of us in the "upper midwest" are quite blessed with the abundance of water that we have... we have 4 rain barrels, which pretty much take care of the veg garden, and in a very dry summer I will water the perennial garden but since it's partly shaded it doesn't usually need it. The lawn very rarely gets any watering... DH more or less insists on having a "lawn", I could be perfectly happy to plant it all to fruit trees and small fruits (and maybe a couple more flower beds
). Kelli, I wish I could have sent just the water that we've had to pump out of our crawl space this spring to you... it would keep your yard in pretty good shape all summer, i think!
