Put water ONLY where you need it:

• Not in the street, on the sidewalk, or the patio. Stop Water Waste!
• Not on succulents unless we get no rain for a long period of time. They'll get skinny-it's okay.
  Be sure they're not on your drip system.
• Keep pool water in the pool through how you operate and landscape the pool area.

Irrigate and sprinkle ONLY when it can be absorbed:

• Not in the wind; it blows away or evaporates.
• Not during the rain or just after it.
• Not during hot sunny hours of the day; it sizzles and evaporates.
• Turn it off if it runs off.
• Turn the sprinkler off if a probe goes 6-10 inches into lawn.
• Turn drip off when the probe goes down 18 inches into soil.

• Practice the seven Xeriscape principles:
  • Design for the use, the site, and the long term.
  • Include low-water use plants of the right size.
  • Plant lawn appropriately.
  • Irrigate efficiently.
  • Improve soil.
  • Use mulch.
  • Maintain appropriately.
• Mow and fertilize appropriately to minimize water use.
  • Apply nitrogen and iron monthly, from April - September, to Bermuda grass.
• Prune prudently.
  • Over-pruning invites disease and stimulates water-hogging growth.
  • • Pruning Shrubs in the Low and Medium Elevation Desert