Definition of root ball
: the compact mass of roots and soil formed by a plant especially in a container
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Your small trees could be grown one more year in a container of suitable size for their root balls and then set in the ground in the future.
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Evergreen trees, when watered with a sprinkler, can shed water away from the root ball.
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New trees, shrubs and ground covers can be planted; do keep the root balls moist.
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Move it around the trunk so the whole root ball is moistened.
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Set your garden hose to a trickle and place it over the root ball.
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Dig a hole just as deep as the root ball and two or three times its width.
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And a few doors along, a tree trunk had battering-rammed another shop, filling the window socket with a van-size root ball.
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Dry root balls is one of the biggest reason for new plant decline.
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First Known Use of root ball
1930
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