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If you have a container that has been used and then woefully neglected and you want to put fresh compost in to start again, do you just throw out the old compost? I am thinking that the previous plants would have used all the nutrients up but am I wrong?

I dig it into my raised beds, it helps to loosen up heavy clay soil or put it in the compost bin, or use it to fill any gaps in the soil.

Thank, Fanny, I wasn't sure if it was OK to do that.

Chuck it on my flower beds. I have the opposite problem of very sandy soil.

I advertised the exhausted contents of a large planter on Freecycle and a guy who had removed a tree from his garden and had a hole in the ground was very grateful to collect it.

As Fanny said, I'd advertised it as firstly being suitable to loosen clay soil.

It's still a good soil conditioner - just spread it around on your flower beds.