Have you mulched your garden recently? Mulching your garden with your own compost or with mulch purchased from your local nursery or garden supplier helps prevent evaporation and improves the quality of your soil.

There are three kinds of mulch that can can be used effectively on the garden to save water:

Coarse Mulch - such as pebbles, bark, gravel and recycled bricks.

Medium Mulch - wood chips and wood chips

Fine Mulch - saw dust, straw, cow manure and compost.

For more details, check out Save Water - Mulch and compost.