we only water the plants when we clean the kiddie swimming pool. we use that water.

And if you do need to water, water early in the morning or at dusk, so less water evaporates.

I much perefr informative articles like this to that high brow literature.

I like the saying "cut it high, let it die" for summer grass cutting. I never water my lawn, only my vegetable and flower garden and they get watered from the rain barrel.

Why doesn't someone come up with a surface made of recycled plastic that looks like grass? Something that doesn't wearout or rot in a couple of years. Then we wouldn't have to cut it and polute the air. And it wouldn't need watered or fertilized.