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For some reason, I recently decided I would not tolerate half of my lawn being moss and clover this year, with brown grass during the summer. With much effort, I have killed and raked out the moss, bored under the concrete pathway, and spot seeded the lawn.

My front lawn is roughly an L-shape, and I have an impact sprinkler that does a poor job of reaching all areas equally, and it hits the fence at the opposite end. I'm contemplating installing popups, but I want to put in as little effort as possible to achieve ok results.

I want to avoid tapping into the water main, and instead just run off the faucet. The yard isn't big; probably less than 1000 sq/ft. Could I just run 1/2" pipe from the facet to 2 popup sprinklers? What about 4 sprinklers? I'm trying to minimize cost, effort, and the annual back-flow preventer inspection.

I'm not even sure I should give this any effort because I'll likely be renting the house out in 2 years. My first choice was to install artificial turf, but I can't get the wife to sign off on it.

Anyhow, I'd like to hear your 2 cents.