Newly installed yards may quickly look like the 2 photos below.

The top photo shows green healthy grass on the borders and pale, yellower grass in the center. The bottom photo shows watering problems that commonly occur on parking strips. The first problem is easiest to correct.

A common wasteful "correction" is to greatly increase the runtimes on the sprinkler timer for the valves. Click on each link to see why this "correction" is wrong and to see efficient water conserving corrections for each problem.