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Mowing is a regular lawn maintenance process for any lawn and is very crucial for your grass to be healthy and green. Our Mowing experts at Green Gold Landscaping Inc can turn a regular, boring lawn into an attractive one by creating beautiful lawn mowing patterns that will envy your neighbors. In this article, we are presenting different types of lawn striping patterns, its benefits and the techniques being used to achieve those stripes, waves, checkerboards, diamonds, and circles. So, Let’s get started.

Mowing Techniques and the Equipment Required:

To Design patterns in a lawn, you need to have experience and some right tools. The tools used for pattern making are Push mower and roller. The roller bends down the grass blades in the desired angle. The grass blade reflects the sunlight, and accordingly, you can see it as light colored or dark colored. To create the patterns you need to hire a lawn care professional to mow the grass and stripe the pattern that is suitable for your lawn.

Different Types of Lawn Mowing Patterns

1. Stripes

This is the most used design and the simplest of all the patterns. This pattern can also be used to hide the irregularities in your lawn. First, a clean edge of the whole garden is made by using a mower. After that decide on the direction you need to bend the grass blades and using a roller attached to the mower, turn the grass in the desired direction at the required angle. A string is used to get the right directions if the lawn is irregular.

2. Checker Board Patterns

This pattern is a complex one and also time-consuming. The design work is the same as the stripe pattern. Once a stripe is made, another strip is designed precisely perpendicular to the previous strip. The pattern making is time-consuming as the work involves careful mowing along the earlier patterns.

3. Diamond Pattern

This pattern is similar to the stripes pattern. Diamond stripes are created by mowing over the patterns diagonally. To start with, a single stripe is mowed from one end to the other and immediately another stripe is mowed diagonally to create a diamond shape.

4. Circular Pattern (Bulls Eye)

Also called as a bullseye, this pattern is created using a push mower technology. A straight line is somewhat difficult to create with the push mower, but we can create a circle or spiral shapes in the lawn. Beginning from the outer perimeter of the garden a ring is designed and gradually making the circles small that form a shape of bullseye at the center.

5. Waves Pattern

First mowing of the lawn is done in a straight line. After that, a wave shape is created using the first line as the base. Do not create waves side by side, as the pattern will not be visible.

Tips to Make Good Looking Mowing Patterns in Grass

These are some of the tricks to use to have great looking grass patterns in your lawn.

Always Mow Your Grass Taller

Tallgrass is easy to bend and also get the desired bending angle. Short grass can also be bent, but frequently comes back and changes the overall look of the pattern.

Use a Lawn Roller

The roller is used to bend the grass blade in the desired angle. The angle decides the way the light is reflected from the surface.

Use Cool seasoned Grass

Any cool seasoned grass is the best option to create good patterns for your lawn.

Use Hardscaping Features

Hardscaping features to support the grass patterns very well. Use hardscaping features like the sidewalks or driveways to create a straight pattern for your lawn.

Benefits of Lawn Striping Patterns

Besides giving a beautiful look to the garden, there are other benefits of the lawn mowing patterns.

1. Hides Imperfections of the Lawn

Some lawns have imperfections, and these can be eliminated by using the lawn patterns technique.

2. Reduces the Damages to the Lawn

If you use the same pattern every time, there is a chance of getting diseases to the lawns. Also, the tire marks of the mowers also make marks on the lawn grass. To cover up these marks, patterns can be designed according to the damages seen.

3. Makes the Lawn healthier

When the grass is mowed to an extended height, the grass becomes resistant to the diseases, and the lawn grows healthier. Cutting more than one-third of the height removes most of the leaves of the grass. The leftover leaves absorb less sunlight and produce less food in the photosynthesis process, thereby making the grass weaker.

Conclusion

Lawn Striping or Designing creative lawn mowing patterns on grass requires different mowers and rollers. A professional lawn care company with the right tools and expertise can make this job easy in less time. Contact Green Gold Landscaping Inc for expert lawn mowing services in Westchester NY and Greenwich CT. Call us at 914-882-5459 for a Free Estimate Now!