If your lawn measures up to 4,000 square feet, Melnor’s oscillating sprinkler. The super-compact sprinkler works with a water pressure as low as 20 PSI. It moves water in a quick back-and-forth ...

But spinning lawn sprinklers? Yes, that too. A new experiment provides an answer to a quirky physics quandary popularized by physicist Richard Feynman in the 1980s.

Water in the Fall Your lawn still needs water in autumn, even though the leaves are changing, the growing season is winding down, and your grass isn’t growing as fast. “Grass should be watered ...

“The absolute best time to water your lawn is the early morning, before 10 a.m.,” Maurer tells Popular Mechanics. Cooler temperatures and calm breezes help keep evaporation to a minimum.

To know how long to water your lawn, put several rain gauges around the yard. Run the sprinklers for 10 minutes. If the gauges measure one-quarter inch it will take 40 minutes to apply 1 inch of ...

In most cases, watering your lawn once or twice a week with one to 1.5 inches of water each time will be sufficient for healthy lawn growth. The exact amount of time in minutes you should water ...

Different types of sprinklers have different flow rates of water. To determine your sprinkler’s flow rate, measure the output with a rain gauge or straight-sided can. Adele Wilcoxen “I water ...

A lawn that is watered deeply should generally be able to go a week between waterings. Established lawns with deep, extensive root systems sometimes can be watered even less often. However, if the ...