If you leave water sitting in your sprinkler system over winter, freezing temperatures will turn that water into ice, which ...

Step 1: Shut off the irrigation water supply. Locate the shut-off valve, which is typically in a green box in your yard close to the water meter. Turn the valve so it's perpendicular to the pipe to ...

Winterizing your outdoor sprinklers before the cold snap is important to help the system perform optimally and last a good, long time. When temperatures drop, any residual water left in the system can ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...