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 remaining roots making up the 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 (on the right in the picture) may make an interesting planter in its own right!