Knowing how to mow your lawn properly is as important as establishing a sound fertilization and irrigation regimen for your grass; you should be mowing, leaving the right height, and cleaning up ...

You become a Master Lawn Mower, in my mind, when you've learned to "lay down a pattern" other than the traditional back-and-forth or Leave It to Beaver style of the 1950s. You know what a pattern is: ...

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Lawn striping is a mowing technique that creates a pattern of alternating light and dark green stripes on your lawn, similar to what you see on professional sports fields and on golf courses. Gene ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a woman mowing lawn with a red lawn mower - AndrWater/Shutterstock At a certain point, we all get into our own little groove when ...

Every homeowner dreams of a lush and thick lawn. If you're lucky enough to have healthy turfgrass, you probably spend a lot of time keeping it manicured. When you need to trim a lawn full of tall ...

Some people love to spend time mowing their lawn. They take pride in the straight lines and patterns they make on their green lawns. But for others, mowing the lawn is a dreaded chore. The answer for ...

Ever wish your lawn looked like the grass at a professional baseball stadium? Incorporating patterns and stripes into your grass is actually an achievable project. There are special mowers on the ...

You can’t help but smile at the sight of the tufty green cover. “Lawnscapes: Mowing Patterns To Make Your Yard a Work of Art” by David Parfitt (Quirk, 2007, $14.95) is a neat little 79-page book that ...