Greetings all,
I'm relatively new to this group, and have a few questions that I think you all might be able to answer.
I'm attempting to water a fairly large amount of lawn. I have three spiked impact sprinklers (the ones that make the "ticking" noise) that can throw water about 80 feet and an ample amount of hose.
I'm wondering what the optimal way to deploy these sprinkers are, and how much watering I should be doing in order to properly water the grass that is here. There are sufficient faucets on the exterior of the buildings and I have sufficient hoses to move the sprinklers to any position necessary (corners of the lawn, center, edges, etc.).
Water pressure is pretty good, so using two sprinklers daisy-chained together is acceptable, but three is not effective. I also have a small square "It gets the corners!" sprinkler to fill in the areas not reached by the impact sprinklers.
A crude ASCII map of the area is as follows:
_______________________________ | | | | | | | _____________ | |--------| |--------| | | | | | | | | | | | | ||Building #1 |--------| | | | ^ | | | | 100ft | | | | v | |--------| |--------| | |____________| | | | | | | | | | | _____________ | |--------| |--------| | | | | | | | | | | | | |--------|Building #2 |--------| | | | | | | | | | | | | |--------| |--------| | |____________| | | | | | | | | | | | _______________________________|
It's not entirely to scale. Each plot of grass is about 40 feet wide, but 100 feet long. It's too much to be covered by a single sprinkler. Two slightly-overlapping sprinklers work fairly well, and leave only a few "dead spots".
Given that I'm in Washington State, and have no idea what species of grass (it's standard army issue grass) is here, and given that water puddles up after about an hour of watering, what would be the most efficient way of deploying the sprinklers (with the least amount of movement and re-adjustment), and how long should I water each particular area, and how long should I wait before re-watering?
Sorry for the large amount of vagueness in this question...I'm not terribly familiar with the types of grass that the army uses in Washington State. Needless to say, I'm trying to keep the lawns as green as possible with the least amount of effort (gardening is not my primary job, but I try to do what I can).
Many thanks!