Gardening without irrigation

The book explains how to grow productive gardens with little or no supplemental watering by combining climate understanding, soil management, and plant selection. It surveys regional rainfall patterns and water-wise science, offers techniques to increase drought resilience—deepening rooting zones, curing clayey subsoils, building humus, using green manures and mulches—and gives practical bed designs, season-by-season care, and A–Z crop guidance. It emphasizes site selection through observation of native vegetation, adapting raised-bed methods to limited water supplies, and long-term strategies for conserving and accessing subsoil moisture. Final chapters present a sample personal garden plan and step-by-step recommendations to reduce irrigation while maintaining yields.