Persephone wrote:
You're talking, above, about damage to "very small plants and
seedlings". Maybe a failure to communicate? I was talking about
large, robust plants like bare-root roses (see above). They are,
in fact, full of "spaghetti-looking paper-ish stuff".

I can see why little containers might help with "tender plants',
so I guess we were looking at different sizes & types.

D'oh!

Why don't they recommend planting bare root roses with bare roots? It's
easy enough to do.

For plants as large as those, I'm with you. Take the degradable pot and
whatever material other than roots and soil is there out. Put what's
left into the ground.