Power Mowers for Beautiful Lawns

Lawnmowers are tools that enable your lawns to look sprawling and beautifully landscaped. They are available in various types, sizes and categories.
For small-sized lawns, you get what is known as a push-lawnmower. As the name suggests, this machine requires to be pushed in order to perform its task. Usually, such a mower has a catching tray or container at the back that collects all the grass that gets cut. If you have a tiny little lawn in front of your house, the push-lawnmower is the ideal choice to keep it looking neat and tidy at all times.
If pushing a mower by yourself is a tedious task, you can even get a push-lawnmower with a propeller machine. This will drive the machine as you guide it on its course. The difference between the two tools, of course, is the cost.
For larger lawns, especially fields on which football or tennis is played, a lawnmower tractor may be a better choice. This does not require manual or physical strength to maneuver, and moreover it also cuts the grass evenly and quickly. What this machine basically comprises is an off-road RV that has a mower attached to its rear. You can easily drive it all around your field all by yourself.

Chicory – A Plant with Perennial Power

The plant Chicory belongs to the aster or sunflower family. It is a perennial plant that is variously known as the ‘blue sailor’ and ’succory’. It is an herbaceous perennial. This implies that it grows and blooms during the spring and summer seasons and then withers in the autumn and winter. In the following spring, it returns from its root-stock, rather than from seeds.
Chicory is often found as part of foliage that is, in clusters, and looks quite similar to plantain or dandelion. Its leaves are also of varying kinds. They could either be smooth-edged, looking like a tongue, or they could be saw-toothed.
The flower of chicory plant is usually light blue in colour. However, pink or white chicory is also not uncommon. A flowering stem can attain a height of up to six feet. The plant can survive sandy soil as well as extremes of drought conditions.
The tap root of chicory plants can grow quite long and appear like a carrot on being fully grown. In moderate hardpans, the root can penetrate through easily.
Chicory is known to have a high level of protein that is usually beneficially to ruminants such as sheep, goats and deer.