With spring rapidly approaching, weekend warriors will prepare to do battle with deadly and annoying dry patches of grass. But is their secret weapon — the sprinkler system — being all that it can be?

Ah, the rituals of spring such as the annual turning on of the irrigation system. With all this warm weather, the ground was ...

You probably do not think much about the little plastic or pot-metal attachment you twist onto your garden hose each spring, at least not until it starts spraying water everywhere except where you ...