Trying to grow a garden here is an expensive excercise in futility.
My next door neighbor keeps trying but $200 to $300 water bills every month kind of took the fun out of it, not to mention the savings.
When I lived in Nevada, we had a huge garden including several fruit trees and a humongous strawberry patch. What can I say? I love strawberries.
Here in AZ, when I first moved into the house, we had a beautiful pine tree in front of the house. That was 30 years ago. Almost 15 years of drought killed that tree and we had to have it removed.
For a while we were a bit ahead on out rainfall, but now we've dropped back to being behind. We have under normal circumstances a Monsoon season and a winter rain period. Usually, if one is a bit short the other makes up for it. It hasn't happened that way in almost 15 years.
I have my own theory and it ain't global warming.
Paul B.