Atascadero was laid out with a grand lawn at its heart, the Sunken Gardens stretching out before the domed City Hall, and the town still believes green space is worth the trouble. Sprinkler King Inc brings sprinkler work and lawn care to this oak-dotted stretch of the Salinas River valley, where mornings arrive wrapped in coastal fog that slips over the Santa Lucia Range and afternoons can bake the hills to straw. Between those two moods, water is everything, and a sprinkler business knows how to deliver it: coverage even, spray kept on the grass, no dry crescents at the corners of the yard. Add mowing and trimming to that, and a North County lawn can hold its color right through the long dry months. Out at Atascadero Lake the ducks keep their own schedule; the lawns, tended right, keep theirs.