garden water management

Each year I have been experimenting with ways to keep the garden soil evenly and consistently moist. Each year I have figured out a little more each year about which crops need more and water, need less water, very picky about consistant watering, keeping the water off the leaves, ... you get the idea. Today while wandering through one of stores I popped into for the few items that are not sold at the People's Co-op http://www.peoples.coop/, I spotted a buy two, get one free sale for garden watering related supplies. I call my parents to let them know and between the two households we ended up buying three timers, two sets of three 50' soaker hoses, three water splitters, .... I still need a few more water distribution supplies for next springs garden but those supplies were not on sale, but I can easily wait a while as in a few weeks the rainy season will startup again and I won't really have to worry about watering. I do have a few ideas for incorporating rain barrels, but that is something I can wait on and I need to design my cold boxes, mini-greenhouse and layout the fall and winter garden.