A little late to reply but your raised beds are beautiful! So lush! Great job to your hubby and you!!
Thank you for your kind words. This was my first experience at growing in raised beds so I did a lot of research first about the soil content. Then some advice from a local nursery about tweaking the soil mixture for our rainy mountain climate conditions so it would drain properly. The beds are high enough for me to sit on the edges, so we filled the bottom with small logs from the wood pile, topped with topsoil from a nearby cleared area, leaving about 20 inches empty at the top. In that 20 inches I used a mixture of one-forth good topsoil, one-forth composted bark, one-forth composted cow/chicken manure, and one forth vermiculite.
I’m really happy with the results. No matter how hard or long it rains, there is never any sitting water. And as long as there is rain at least every third day (and there always is) the soil stays damp enough.