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Filling Raised Vegetable Beds

We have built our first raised vegetable beds placed on existing rough lawn, where the chickens have been. They are approx 1 meter x 2.5 meters x .45 meter. We don’t have any spare soil. Can we fill them with rotted horse manure/ some rotted garden waste/ some new purchased no2 John Innes compost? At what sort of proportions And do we have to mix it up or later it ? Do we have to dig the soil below the raised bed ? We would like to put stuff in to grow ASAP Many thanks


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