title: Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
author: Steve Solomon
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  # Gardening Without Irrigation: or Without Much, Anyway
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Steve Solomon
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Introduction. Starting a New Gardening Era
  
  
  Gardening with Less Irrigation
  
  
  Chapter 1. Predictably Rainless Summers
  
  
  Chapter 2. Water-Wise Gardening Science
  
  
  Chapter 3. Helping Plants to Need Less Irrigation
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 4. Water-Wise Gardening Year-Round
  
  
  Chapter 5. How to Grow It with Less Irrigation:
  
  
  A--Z
  
  
  Chapter 6. My Own Garden Plan
  
  
  Chapter 7. The Backyard
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  Created by: Steve Solomon ssolomon@soilandhealth.org
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Introduction. Starting a New
  
  
  Gardening Era
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  First, you should know why a maritime Northwest raised-bed gardener
  
  
  named Steve Solomon became worried about his dependence on
  
  
  irrigation.
  
  
    
  I'm from Michigan. I moved to Lorane, Oregon, in April 1978 and
  
  
  homesteaded on 5 acres in what I thought at the time was a cool