Little old lady died many years ago. Her heirs let the house sit vacant for years and years and years while they argued over whether to keep it or sell it. We bought it in 2014. None of our tenants have been magic gardeners with green thumbs, and the yard is awful and not just full of weeds, but full of stickerburrs. So I finally broke down and hired a yard care service to come in for weed control.

It's 6 treatments per year. We need to mow with a bag prior to the application. And we need to water the yard if we don't get natural precipitation within 10 days post-treatment.

The lot is bigger than a quarter-acre. There are no built-in sprinklers. So if I needed to hook a hose up to a sprinkler a few times a year and drag it around and water the lot--- what's everyone's favorite sprinkler style? They don't seem to sell the style I grew up with back in the day, and I suspect sprinkler technology has improved since then... :)

For large areas, I use this tall rainbird type sprinkler. The sprinkler head is up on a pole, about 4 feet high. It covers a very large area of ground.

I bought my first ones from a local farm supply house. When those had freeze damage that I couldn't repair, I found the same sprinkler on Amazon. You won't find them in the average open to the public store.

I went to Amazon and the garden section and searched for tall sprinkle. A bunch of them came up.