Potted

 We lost several plants to the freeze. One was an Asparagus Fern that came with the house. The fern was planted in a unique concrete pot made by the previous owners. I wanted to replant with something else, but I couldn't get the rootball left from the previous tenant out of the pot!

I tried carefully turning the pot upside down. Maybe gravity would do its work on it.

It didn't

I tried taking a dowel and plunging it down the hole, thinking maying that would push the root ball out.

It didn't.

I tried water, thinking that if I forced water in the hole it might wash dirt away from the roots, and the smaller root ball could fall out.

It didn't.

So today, I went out to the shop and asked the Mister if he had a saw I could use to cut into the root ball and take it out, piece by piece. "Of course," he said, "there's a DeWalt for that!"

I went back to the plant, cut and pulled, and pulled and cut, and used my saw-tooth trowel, and the saw some more. I was finally able to pull the rootball out of the pot. 

I'm thinking the rootball basket that is left may make an interesting planter in its own right!