A sprinkler system kit helps maintain the watering schedule for your lawn, but if you wonder how difficult these really are ...

Sure, one way to avoid this chore is to drop thousands on an underground irrigation system, but there is another way. Here's my quick-and-dirty DIY method that's actually quite effective ...

I hook this up to the drip-irrigation system. The drip-irrigation kit was the most expensive part of this DIY greywater system at about $25. The tap and accessories totaled a little less than $6.

That's from a pulsating sprinkler, also called an impact sprinkler ... in an in-ground system but don't want to spend all that money having someone else do it, try this DIY version.