Turning your lawn into an eye catching work of art takes imagination, practice and a basic knowledge of how bent grass reflects light.
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Big League Lawns, makers of universal CheckMate™ lawn striping products, focuses on manufacturing a unique and highly dependable product for today's lawn enthusiast. Whether you're a homeowner, commercial mowing contractor, or a professional groundskeeper, we strive to provide you with a versatile roller assembly that delivers stadium style results.
About Lawn Striping
Groundskeepers at baseball parks have traditionally created checkerboard,
diamond and argyle patterns in the field. These patterns have become more
elaborate in recent years and have become a trend within the suburbs of
America.
The designs are created through a process called lawn striping. To create
lawn striping designs of your own, you only need two pieces of equipment:
a lawnmower and a roller. Many professional groundskeepers use old-fashioned
reel mowers to cut a stadium's grass. Attached just behind the blades
of the mower is a lawn roller that bends the grass down. Whatever pattern
you make is revealed by the light shining off of the bent grass. A checkerboard
design is created by passing over the grass in side-by-side rows, first
going north to south, then making east-to-west stripes in the grass that
intersect the north-south stripes. In this way, you alternate the way
the grass bends. When you look at your lawn, the stripes of grass leaning
away from you will look lighter. This lighter green is caused by the sunlight
reflecting off the entire blade of grass. In the darker green stripes,
formed by the blades of grass leaning toward you, the sunlight is reflecting
only off the tips of the blades.
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