I had some running bamboo professionally installed about a year and a half ago in some narrow spaces along fences, but they did a poor job of it and the bamboo is already jumping the root barriers (there is metal around the barriers for decorative purposes, which merely pushed the barriers way into the ground; bamboo hopped over the barrier, under the metal, and away it went). I decided it just wasn't worth it to fret about it running into the neighbor's space, so have cut it all down and am in the long process of slowly digging it up.
The question: if I were to plant something else in the space to act as a screen (arborvitae?), must I remove the root barrier? I don't expect to be digging out all 18-24 inches of dirt as part of the rhizome removal process so as to fully free the barrier. I also have a long rain garden along one side so thought maybe the barrier might be useful to contain other plants, but I don't want to plant something, wait 5 years for it to grow, then have it die because of the barrier.
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