Deep-rooted crops should alternate with shallow-rooted crops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Book of Farming] Reference

Often people wrongly assume that only shallow-rooted plants will thrive in a shallow bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [17: Above-ground (urban) gardens] Reference

Once they do, they must compete with the shallow-rooted evergreens for water and scarce nutrients.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

Pinus caribaea can bear severe competition from shallow-rooted grasses, except when rainfall is below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

The warmer north-facing slopes have low and drought-prone soils where shallow-rooted restioids dominate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference

Being shallow-rooted, willows were doomed to disappear as the water table fell beyond reach of their roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference

It comes with slow-growing, shallow-rooted plants that grow on a wall-mounted frame that contains a closed water system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climbing The Office Walls] Reference

Despite the presence of permafrost and lack of extensive precipitation, the tundra sustains many types of shallow-rooted plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic] Reference

Chimneys on houses may be damaged; trees have broken branches; shallow-rooted trees pushed over; some windows broken; damage to sign boards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tornadoes] Reference

In this way, nutrients are “pumped” from the lower to the upper layers of soil, where they are then available for shallow-rooted plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

For example, plants with shallow, widespreading roots can be more densely planted with deep-rooted plants than with other shallow-rooted ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

This food is distributed throughout the plant and when the plant is plowed under the food is deposited in the upper soil for the use of shallow-rooted plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Book of Farming] Reference

Since this self-control cannot be effectuated by an instant effort of will, or even by a shallow-rooted and momentary conviction, it must be pursued by a recurring habit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy] Reference

These trees are especially suited for intercropping because they do not compete with shallow-rooted annual crops that draw most of their water and nutrients from the top soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 18] Reference

Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference

Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act III. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

Plant shallow-rooted varieties in the container with soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference

All are shallow-rooted and like fertile, well-drained soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

They are shallow-rooted plants that are easily damaged by excessive moisture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories] Reference

I don't know how many nutrients it takes from the soil and it is shallow-rooted.    From Wordnik.com.  [slowly she turned] Reference

Hence they gather plant food and moisture that shallow-rooted plants fail to reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition] Reference

Olive trees are moderately sized, somewhat shallow-rooted and very drought-tolerant once established.    From Wordnik.com.  [tcpalm.com Stories] Reference

He was watching the shadow cast by a shrub that sprang, shallow-rooted, from a crevice in the bedrock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laramie Holds the Range] Reference

In reality, that rarely happens unless the mulch was mixed into the soil around very shallow-rooted annuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

Another method, for more shallow-rooted plants, is to reduce the amount of water applied with each irrigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Record-Courier - Top Stories] Reference

No one writer of past years unsettled the already shallow-rooted faith of the people to such an extent as Voltaire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business] Reference

But check that there is adequate root development (tap root minimum 3in), as damage can be caused to shallow-rooted plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [FWi - All News] Reference

Many shrubs, such as rhododendrons and azaleas, are shallow-rooted, so cultivating around them can cut and damage the roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [detnews.com - Nation-World] Reference

It is important to keep the roots of clematis cool by covering the root system with mulch or a shallow-rooted groundcover that will provide shade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drupal] Reference

As an added security, only shallow-rooted plants are ever used, deliberately avoiding the risk of root interference with any pipes that might be laid beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

Kills off the shallow-rooted weeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Ring And A Promise]

It is shallow-rooted.    From Wordnik.com.  [12. Tef] Reference