108 is clicked this brings up the zones box 130 fig5 which displays a valve icon 132 and an editable description box 134 for each of the separately programmable zones a watering schedule is begun by dragging and dropping in accordance with standard windows u00ae practice a selected valve icon 132 onto a selected time band 120 at approximately the time position at which a watering cycle is selected to begin note that in fig5 the down arrow 126 has been clicked until the time bands 120 on the screen represent the sixth through twelfth days of a two week setup repeated dragging and dropping produces the screen of fig6 the up arrow 124 having been clicked to go back to a display of the first seven days of the two week setup preferably the valve or zone icons 132 are color coded and the schedule boxes 135 are correspondingly color coded in addition to being numbered it will thus be seen in fig6 that the flower beds and parkway lawn get watered on tuesday at about 7 15 am and 8 15 am respectively the rear lawn front lawn and front shrubs get watered on wednesday at about 5 55 am 7 05 am and 7 55 respectively and the rose garden gets watered at 8.