Making your lawn look like a professional baseball field

I just got back from an unofficial church outing with some buddies. We saw the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim lose to the Cleveland Indians 5-2. Booo.

Anyway, we get to talking and somebody wondered aloud how the elaborate pattern on the field is achieved. Go ahead, think about it. I'll even give you a quiz to see how smart you are.

Is the pattern achieved by

• A) Mowing the lawn in alternating directions
• B) Using some fancy equipment to make the blades point different directions
• C) Cutting the grass to two different levels

Scroll down for the answer, but not until you've thought about it.



After the game I spoke to the man standing on the dugout located on the right side of the above picture, and he claimed that it was all three. Congratulations, you all got it right.

However, if you guessed B, you get it more right that the other two because how stuff works gives most of the credit to what's called a lawn roller - basically a big steam roller for your lawn. If you had a lawn roller, perhaps you could make your lawn look like this:




or this:



or maybe even this:



Lowes.com has lawn rollers for around $150.