I've gotten my neighbor hooked on night time watering. With the summer heat we have, it keeps everything from evaporating in the hot sun. It's the only way I can keep my tropicals alive and blooming instead of frying.

I did deep root watering last night with a rod that sends it down deep to the roots instead of ponding on the surface and never penetrating. Even though I have mulch on all of my beds, it still pays to keep every drop. Even then when it's 8-10pm I am still soaked from head to toe because of all of the humidity we have here, but at least I'm not dropping from a heat stroke!

It's also really good exercise with all of the bending, weed pulling, trimming and filling cans. It gets my heart rate up because it nonstop for a couple of hours.