re: How many of you baws mow patterns into your lawn?

I alternate my cuts from diagonal to horizontal.

Gotta keep the grass guessing

Wait, I can let this thing loose in my neighbors yard to cut grass dicks? Hmmm

Rotate between horizontal, vertical, and diagonal.

I don't do patterns in my lawn, but I do stencil well with my pressure washer on my driveway!

I used to really spend a lot of time especially in the front yard edging weed whacking, ( still fertilizer once or twice a year) and yea I used to try to make it look like a baseball outfield sometimes, even let it grow really long just to mow LSU into it once … but now a days I just push cut the front, rider mower the back really slow on the weekends with some beers when I need time outside away from the wife and kids… you know it still looks just as good right now as it did before I had 3 kids but I don’t put all that time in like I used to, I also made the front beds easier just hostas and some other non maintenance small plants.

I start straight then curve each line to one point at the far end of the lawn. Looks more interesting than straight lines back and forth.

It doesn't have to take extra gas if you own a push mower.

I used to do crop circles, but now I mow alternate paths. Parallel to the street, perpendicular to the street and diagonal both ways.

Looks nice and doesn't rut up my yard.

Also, I bag the clippings each week and don't blow them into the street and storm drains like some morons.

I'm a diagonal kind of guy. If you mow the same pattern constantly, you'll rut up and it'll bite you later on

I guess I do if a square is a pattern..