root wrapping; balling and burlapping
Horticultural technique of wrapping a plant's root ball with burlap or similar material, often for transplanting.
Before transplanting the tree, we wrap the root ball.
We loaded the root-wrapped saplings onto the truck.
Compound of 根 (ne, 'root') and 巻き (maki, 'wrapping'), from the verb 巻く (maku, 'to wrap').