u/Weberkettle_guy

New to us house this past spring, built in 09. Rain bird system. Wife wants a garden in the yard near one of the flower beds for pollinators, I want to shove it further back near the trees. So we’re negotiating and putting it where she wants it. Anyways, here are the sprinklers marked with their zone number. One would assume the main line runs under zone 4 to zone 3 and up the hill to finish the run, but I honestly have no idea . The driveway is on this side of the home, so the main has to come around from the far side to this side of the home. Yellow box is roughly where we want to put the garden. I don’t want to hit or move a sprinkler line. I also have no idea where any of the solenoid valves are, as I can’t find any valve boxes. I’m assuming there has to be some, maybe buried? I’m going to have to raise numerous heads this fall, as half of them are 1.5-3 inches underground.

Forgive my poor photoshop skills.

We bought this house in April, came with a koi pond. (comets, sarasa and shubunkin) The previous owners left a guide of sorts, and chose more of a hands off approach to handling algae. The pond has done great up until a few weeks ago, when this sludge type algae started clogging my filters. Plants are water lilies, water iris, anacharis and some type of grass along one side. I’m cleaning about twice a week now to keep the pump from sucking air. Prior to this I would only clean weekly, mostly pulling hair algae out manually. There are 13 fish in the pond, the largest is about 5 inches long, most are around 3. We feed “pond sticks” as recommended in the guide, we are feeding once a day. The amount fed is probably 30-40 pieces.

Looking for any advice on how to treat this algae problem. Is this just the natural course of the pond or am I introducing too many nutrients with feeding? Everything seems to be thriving, we have multiple rounds of tadpoles that grow up. There are some snails in the pond, biggest I’ve seen is probably quarter sized. In mid Missouri if that’s any help.

Husqvarna 128L trimmer. Stopped running last week, noticed the primer bulb was empty and wouldn’t prime. Today as I took it apart, the primer line was broken at the tank. Problem solved, or so I thought. I replaced all the lines, filter and primer bulb just to be safe. Now it still won’t prime. When I pull the primer plate off and pump it, plenty of fuel comes out. But when assembled, no fuel enters the bulb. The gasket and membrane between the plate and carb looked intact, but wasn’t replaced. I’m really at a loss why it won’t prime. Appreciate any input

Thanks!

Edit/follow up. Thanks for all the advice. I verified the lines are on correctly. Cleaned the passages with carb clean. Won’t prime with cap on or off. Haven’t been able to find a carb kit with the correct gaskets in it, so I bought a replacement carb, it will be here Wednesday sometime. Hopefully can play with it Wednesday evening, otherwise it will be the weekend or next week due to work schedule.

Really appreciate all the advice and feedback.