After watching the welcome rain last weekend, I dreamed of skipping my yard-watering duties. But when the skies cleared and I went out to plant my bareroot berries, those hopes turned to dust. The first few millimeters of soil were wet all right, but underneath, my shovel bit into dry ground. And that isn’t abnormal. The average neatly trimmed lawn can only absorb water for the first 10 minutes of a rain event… the rest of that lovely wetness flows on across your lawn, over the driveway and right into the gutter.