Your Lawn Preference

[Clonefan94]

I want to learn how to cut my lawn like this:



Not that I'm a huge Red Sox fan, but that's just cool...

You just need a roller. It's the grass laying in different directions that give it that look. Fill a 3" pvc pipe with sand and drag it behind your mower as you go. It helps to have a really thick lawn.

[egami]

Is it a true spiral, or more of a box-in? I will box my way in, but have never done a real spiral.....

I call it the spiral of death because you just mow circularly inward until done, but box-in may be a better description.

Although, I have seen people actually do a true circular spiral with like a boxed edge...maybe once or twice is all though.

[JP4CY]

Not that I'm a huge Red Sox fan, but that's just cool...

I'm not a Mets fan either but I thought it was awesome when they used to do the skyline at Shea.

[MoreCowbell]

It's the old-fashioned way, I think...I see it most in small towns and rural areas. I would venture to guess that the majority of farm homes do it that way...start on the outside and just spiral to the middle.

That's how I was taught to mow the lawn when growing up on the farm. We had about the equivalent of 2 acres of lawn and used a riding lawnmower.

The hub mows our lawn now, and usually does parallel to the street/sidewalk. (I was going to say he goes back and forth, just the way I like it, but it's not Friday. Yet.)

[dosry5]

That's how I was taught to mow the lawn when growing up on the farm. We had about the equivalent of 2 acres of lawn and used a riding lawnmower.

The hub mows our lawn now, and usually does parallel to the street/sidewalk. (I was going to say he goes back and forth, just the way I like it, but it's not Friday. Yet.)

Yeah, and I was going to ask something about Geronimus mowing the lawn...but can wait until Friday....

[jdoggivjc]

I'm not a Mets fan either but I thought it was awesome when they used to do the skyline at Shea.

It's actually not technically the New York Skyline:

At the left is a church spire, symbolic of Brooklyn, the borough of churches; the second building from the left is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn; next is the Woolworth Building; after a general skyline view of midtown comes the Empire State Building; at the far right is the United Nations Building. The bridge in the center symbolizes that the Mets, by bringing National League baseball back to New York, represent all five boroughs.

New York Mets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Flag Guy]

Still bad *** either way

[dmclone]

I'm still waiting for them to improve those electric robot mowers.

[dustinal]

I usually go around the outside three times to avoid getting grass on the street and sidewalks, then start parallel lines. I've thought about angling it. Maybe next time.

[bos]

I'm still waiting for them to improve those electric robot mowers.

Some day all of our dreams can come true.

[cycopath25]

I was driving through town the other day in some various areas and noticed it seems like often people in given area mow their lawns alike. One area will do the "angle cut", another area will do more of a "straight parallel line" look and in some cases...you see the good ol' fashioned "spiral pattern" where they start on the outside and drive in a circle until they are done in the middle.

So, it made me wonder, what is the more popular mowing preference at the moment?

If you're not the keeper of the lawn, what would your preference be?

Yep, it must be summer . . . .

[Arkansas]

Since everything down here is rock and clay the necessary equipment for mowing involve a weedeater and lots of body armor to protect against flying rocks, twigs and those things deemed unidentifiable.

[Al_4_State]

The spiral is the quickest, but for the look, I like angles with the direction altered every other mow.

[dosry5]

The spiral is the quickest, but for the look, I like angles with the direction altered every other mow.

Are you talking about landscaping or manscaping here?

[Al_4_State]

Are you talking about landscaping or manscaping here?

landscaping. The year I took off between undergrad and law school, I was a master of the craft of lawn maintenance.

As far as manscaping, I go all General Sheman on it about 3-4 times year. Burn it down the ground, and just nature take its course for awhile.