• Doing nothing is sometimes best
• Avoid fertilizer - it can burn root hairs, cause drying out of the tissue
• Avoid pruning - it stimulates new growth, which uses water reserves
• Avoid pesticides - they can injure drought-stressed foliage
• Avoid watering, obviously
• Turn off your controller or adjust moisture sensors for minimum watering
• Allow plants to wilt, up to a point
• Remove unnecessary plants to provide more water for those remaining
• Use
an anti-transpirant to reduce water loss
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• Provide
shade for plants if practical
• Cover
the ground with a mulch to reduce evaporative losses
• Determine
which plants can live without supplemental watering
• Allocate
water to the plants that need it most
• Those
in the sunniest parts of yard
• Plants
that will die from drought
• Most
valuable plants
• Use
ET information to your advantage
• When
you water remember: water the roots, not the surface of
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