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So I am hoping I can tap this great collective brain for some input:

I have a relatively small yard in a new neighborhood (shocking for Calgary, I know! Big house no yard!). However, I have a nicely manicured front yard with a lot of grass, as well as a backyard with several trees, bushes, etc. I spend way too much time watering these, hauling the sprinkler front and back...

I thought about a hose with a timer, but then the hose sits on the grass and kills my lawn, and generally looks hobo-riffic.

So I am thinking about a DIY underground sprinkler / irrigation system. Has anyone installed one themselves? I was hoping for a setup that I could attach to my outdoor faucet with a computerized water timer and multiple spigets, so I can use my flower bed hose while leaving the lawn system intact... I realize this is a hybrid (ghetto?) idea, but hope it's something that exists?

I am sure I can rent a small trenching machine and run the appropriate hose around my yard and install the sprinkler heads, but wonder about tying it in? I can't go under the driveway, so it'd be easiest if I just had one setup for the left side of the house (back yard and front left grass) and one for the front right large grass. They could then both be independent systems with their own control on the outdoor spigot?


Basically I am 'talking' out loud here - How crazy is this? Any options out there?