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The dissolve mode won't do anything for the strip. It is meant to have uneven (dissolving) edges so that when you transform it and warp it out of bounds, you'll get a kind of jaggedy border. As sprucemagoo says, if you want a realistic looking line, you need realistic looking grass. My solution is cartoonish.

example 1: bottom strip is solid; 2 layer copies are on dissolve, lowered opacity, and warped outside the lines of the strip.

example 2: everything is the same except that the bottom layer, the original stripe, is set to dissolve and the opacity also lowered.

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If you want to soften up the edges or further disslove some part of the line, I suggest using the bottom layer, add a layer mask, choose a soft round brush, set the brush mode to dissolve and the opacity to around 20% and brush away on the mask with black. Don't like your results, paint back in with white. It's like using the eraser and an un-eraser. Example 3:

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