Great info on watering!!

http://isatexas.com/images/pdf_files/Co ... t_Tips.pdf

How often should I be watering plants like tomatoes and peppers?

If you can water deeply so that you're not watering every day you'll do your garden and your water bill a favor. I've had various methods (sprinklers, soaker hoses) over the years, but this year I'm going to mostly do hand-watering.

If you use a probe (like a golf club minus the head) and poke it into the ground you can feel if it gives, if it is moist or soggy, or dry or hard. Let a tool like that guide your watering. There are formulas, an inch of water every so often. But a sprinkler can miss spots, or make some areas really wet. So I'm controlling it more by using the hose with a large diffusing nozzle (like is on the end of a wand or some watering cans (so I send a gentle spray onto the garden).