There was a little problem when I turned on my inground sprinkler system in mid-April. One of the seven zones in the system had a bad valve. The damaged valve stayed on all the time, even when another ...

Having water in your yard where you need it is a real blessing. Remember, people used to have to carry it by hand. But come winter, those hoses, pipes, and valves are susceptible to the cold. As the ...

Q: We’ve finally saved enough money to landscape our backyard. We have a lawn and sprinkler system in mind, but we’ve never installed such a system. Any ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center has been working with KZValve of Greenwood, Nebraska. The two are working on a new valve for pivot irrigation. In ...