water please!

the grass in the community garden was brown and pretty crunchy underfoot this evening and the curled leaves on the maize ( second and third photo ) in the iuncg and the ones on the teosinte in the pgp ( fourth photo ) told me it was time to water...so i spent about an hour going over all the beds from from to back ( and i did not neglect to soak the arborvitae )...a much drier month has increased our need for supplemental water..a bit late but the idea of a flow meter to quantify use occurs...next season?