I watered only once and it was months ago. I still have 7 plants in good shape producing. This is the least amount of water I have ever had to give my garden in the 19 years I gardened here. We had steady and significant rain all season except for a brief 10 day or so dry spell when I turned the soaker hoses on. The lawn stayed green all year as well. I never saw this here before. Usually lawns here are brown by August without watering and I never water my lawn. The downside of all the rain and cool, more disease on some of my toms than is usual. Plus side, great cuke and onion season!

dry farming is a technique used to get the most flavor out of your toms. I only water when the plants start to wilt. this year after completing my 900 gallon water tower i only watered once in june!!! figures. normally for 50 plants i use 1000-2000 gallons a season and only use buried soaker hoses.

I rarely watered this eary, except in early spring. But I agree with Bigdaddy, this is just a freak year.

On the farm we usually have to bring in alot of feed or hay for the summer because the grass just cant take the heat. But this year the pastures are green as can be and the cattle cant even keep up with it.

And they said this year we were going to have dought....

I am no expert, but I only watered once this year as the rain was constant, it was a good old British summer, welcoming me to the US. and it took me 11 days of sun in the 90's to get to that position, and I have had some amazing toms and we have an irrigation system for the lawn, an automatic job, paid a fortune to have it switched on and primed, it too has only been used once, for 20 mins at 4 am, grass is very green, actually greener than neighbours who's system come on at 11 am daily, for an hour at a time come er..rain or sun! they must have money to burn, or should I say, wash down the drain?
last year I noticed that although it was hot and humid through the summer here, it rained in those drowning downpours every few days, so when I build my raised beds I included a sand for drainage, so even if it hadn't been cold and wet, I doubt I would water very much anyway in a hot year.
Plus I cann't remember a year in the last few in the UK where we haven't had a hosepipe ban, so we do tend to be more conservative, I am sure the same is true in the dryer States in the US.