Drought

Home & Garden

Home

• Heat makes ants go marching indoors
• The heat is on to lower energy bills

Garden

• Mulching helps plants retain valuable moisture
• To dos and not-to-dos key to garden's survival

Landscape

• Best Management Practices for Landscape Water Conservation
• Common sense rules for flowers in drought
• Droughtproof your landscape
• Extreme heat can sizzle landscapes
• Groundcovers make landscape less thirsty
• Heat, drought take toll on landscape plants
• Planting time key to summer flower's survival
• Rely on drought-resistant landscape plants
• Trees can suffer heat stroke, too

People & Pets

• Keep the summer heat from turning deadly

Watering

• Lawns don't waste water, people do
• Prepare your plants for summer watering
• Poking and soaking will help lawn survive
• Suffering dogwoods need water in Georgia summer
• Trees need water, too
• Used properly, home irrigation can be helpful tool
• Using gray water on the landscape
• Watering 101: Just the right amount, and never too much