How can I keep my garden hydrated in the summer? Its hot here!

You got this!!! The best thing you can do is use mulch- Cover your soil with a blanket of organic material such as straw, leaves, shredded paper or cardboard, or bark. This will moderate soil temperature, prevent runoff and evaporation, and hold moisture in the for longer periods between waterings. Good luck!!!

if you are using containers, soil-moist crystals will hold water and let the plants use it. i don't recommend them for out in garden. i wound up installing a drip irrigation system. there are kits available on the internet, or have a growers supply company help you out.

Get soaker hoses and plant them in your garden beds, The hose part is easy to cut and attach fittings. You can use solid hose between beds and conserve water. Google soaker hoses for many examples.

Use plantings specific to Arizona...very dry conditions, use composted leaf debris..add to soil and a top mulch 3" deep...those soaker hoses conserve water..water early in the day..like 8 am so that the water gets to the roots and doesn't just evaporate. Plantings. Like Russian sage love that environment!

I buy a large plastic water container... poke small holes on the bottom, 4 in the center ...small leak is the idea. In my herb flower box, which is long and wide in the center I put small gravel, to place the water jug on... it slow leaks water all day. Also had one at base of fruit tree... keeps from drying out... start with very small holes! Time it the first time you use it to determine how long water takes to empty. If too fast put gravel in bottom of container. I live in Tucson.

Peter Andrews wrote a book on how to contour your land etc....I bought it on Amazon and sent it to someone in Arizona a couple of years ago....The Australian ABC show called Australian Stories did 3 different shows on how he takes places and makes the rich and green.....his own place in the first show had properties for miles around that were barren with huge cracks everywhere and right on the border of his place and all over his place was the thickest greenest grass for his race horses.....we had a 13 year drought a few years ago here in Australia and a huge chain store called Harvey Norman ( one of the 3 shows they did )......people kept telling Jerry Harvey to bring Peter Andrews in to fix up his race horse place and he finally did.....within 2 years the place had the insect and frog life it would normally take 10 years to get back......and we were still in the tail end of the drought......on saying that after a drought there is always heavy rain....the people here with great soils did not flood on their land and the soil took up the rains and they did not sit on top like soil that could not take in the water like normally.....wishing you good luck as the long term guy who is like the Farmers Almanac says we are going to start a 5 year drought that will be the worst Australia has ever seen at the end of 2018. I am busily doing things now to help protect the dams and trees I do have on our 40 acres.