Mowing Patterns With Your Lawn Mower

If you’ve ever walked or driven past a neighbor’s yard and seen a beautiful pattern cut through their grass, you may have been green with envy. Mowing a pattern into your yard is a great way to increase the curb appeal of your property. Here are the steps you can take to achieve professional-looking patterns.

Let Your Grass Grow

Mowing patterns are created by bending the blades in different directions so that they catch the light in a certain way. That light-and-dark contrast can’t be achieved with blades of grass that are too short. Keep fertilizing your yard and let it grow at least 3” tall before you try mowing a pattern into it for best results.

Edge Your Lawn

Take your lawn mower and walk it around the perimeter of your yard to neaten up the edges and give you a boundary to work within. To further tidy your lawn, you can get an edger to trim stray bits of grass around fence posts and other obstacles.

Try These Patterns

You have a wide variety of potential patterns you can try, including the following: 

• Stripes: Simple and tidy-looking, you can choose to mow horizontally or vertically across your lawn. Make sure that you mow a straight line to begin with and line up your mower with the previously-mown strip of grass each time you turn it for best results.
• Diamonds or checkerboard: By mowing stripes diagonally from one top corner to the opposite bottom corner of your lawn, then turning and going back the other direction, you can create a checkerboard pattern with 90° angles or, by angling your mower to make more obtuse angles, a diamond pattern.
• Circles: Choose a large obstacle on your lawn, like a tree, hedge, or flower bed, and mow in concentric circles around it to the edges of your yard for a unique, flowing look.

When you’re ready to buy a new lawn mower, visit our dealership in Shiner, TX, to see what we have in stock. Boehm Tractor Sales serves our Texas customers in greater Austin, as well as those coming from the city of Seguin.