Turning your lawn into an eye catching work of art takes imagination, practice and a basic knowledge of how bent grass reflects light.
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.
