It's that time of year again to see how some of gardening's new products fared under real-life testing in the Over the Garden Fence Horticultural Trial Laboratory (also known as My Back Yard). The ...

What to do once you have a sprinkler system installed on your property: buy a sprinkler control system or make your own? The latter, obviously. [danaman] was determined to hack together a cheap, ...

Click to view Early and deep watering is important to growing a healthy lawn, and an affordable DIY automatic sprinkler system can do it for you. By watering your lawn early in the morning you allow ...

There is something strangely amusing about the idea of a sprinkler system relying on a cloud. But it was this limitation in some commercial offerings that led [Zack Lalanne] to create his own ...