Making your lawn look like Fenway Park's is a tough task, but designing your own fancy pattern just got a little easier thanks to David Mellor. Mellor, who has worked as a groundskeeper at Fenway for 28 years, showed the Wall Street Journal some tricks of the trade that any fan of baseball or nice lawns could use to spruce up their own turf. The art of creating grass patterns, also known as "striping," apparently isn't too difficult and is as simple as bending the grass in different directions. Contrary to what you may think, they don't paint the grass...
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