ADJECTIVE
- (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots
How To Use potbound In A Sentence
- They also relish an abundance of water; and if they have, while growing, an application of liquid manure once or twice a week, it will be beneficial; never allow the roots to become potbound, but when the roots begin to form a mat on the outside of the ball of earth, it is time to shift the plant into a pot of the next larger size, and so on as the plant requires it. Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden
- Never is a steed pigsty - born ; nor an evergreen pine potbound.
- Maybe I need to let them get a little more potbound.) 6) (in one container) two supermarket cactuses. John dillinger is alive and well and living in--
- Apple's reliance on the premium PC market, and the overall market's stagnation, leaves Apple at risk of becoming potbound. Latest from Computerworld
- It might mean that it hung about all last season and was potbound by the time it was repotted. Times, Sunday Times
- It might mean that it hung about all last season and was potbound by the time it was repotted. Times, Sunday Times
- If it feels hard and tight, then it's probably seriously potbound and you should ask to see it unpotted. Times, Sunday Times
- If it feels hard and tight, then it's probably seriously potbound and you should ask to see it unpotted. Times, Sunday Times
- In the end potbound trees always die because in the end someone forgets to water. Times, Sunday Times
- Never is a steed pigsty - born ; nor an evergreen pine potbound.