Soon, baseball stadiums all over the country imitated his techniques. The book gives directions for making hundreds of patterns that are effective even on smaller lots. While commercial equipment is used to create patterns on ballfields, it's possible for homeowners to devise similar effects by using full-width rollers like those on most Simplicity lawn and garden tractors and riding mowers. Simplicity, whose headquarters are in Port Washington, has manufactured mowers and tractors since the 1960s with rollers that give effects similar to professional reel mowers. The rollers bend grass in the direction of travel, creating stripes.
People do herringbone designs, sunbursts, waves, numbers and monograms.
The only thing needed is a little practice. It also includes tips from Mellor. To learn how to design checkerboard, plant or diamond striping patterns, visit the Simplicity Web site . As for a new chapter in the lawn-striping story, with a whole new ballpark, Vanden Berg, director of grounds at Miller Park, is looking at the different angles and new configuration to see what new and different patterns to use this year. We take it as we grow.