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- noun The mass of
roots and associatedsoil when aplant is lifted from the soil or from a container
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Examples
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Form the rootball into a shape that will fit into the depression you have made with your index finger and insert it into the pot.
How To Repot Daylily Seedlings-and other valuable info « Fairegarden 2009
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We dug a huge rootball and hoped for the best with each move.
Clems, Roses and Good Things Coming To An End « Fairegarden 2008
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Tree peonies, if it must be done I would guess now is the time, getting as much rootball and soil intact as possible.
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The older kids picked up a piece of bamboo with a hard, dried rootball on one end.
Knitting and Mending The Raven 2006
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The older kids picked up a piece of bamboo with a hard, dried rootball on one end.
Archive 2006-04-01 The Raven 2006
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Bareroot seedlings are grown to a height of about 50 cm in the nursery and dug up and planted directly in the field without a rootball or container.
Chapter 5 1996
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All the water is channeled directly into the soil near the rootball.
7: Water resources 1996
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Now when we transplant a tree we bury an old flower pot with drainage holes just outside the rootball.
7: Water resources 1996
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Make sure potted seedlings have a well-developed rootball.
Chapter 8 1992
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The bottom line: Is it wide enough to easily set the rootball into the hole?
News 2010
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