Not for now but this fall. Find a place that has horses and see if you can get horse droppings from them. Cover the beds with and compost as well. Let it winter over and next spring lightly rake the top of the bed to even it out and plant your crop. Repeat this exercise every year. What were doing is "No Till" and you will be surprised at the results. I've been doing this to my surrogate raised bed at work which sets on sandstone for the last 5 years and it is teaming with worms and I can push my finger down 30 cm in any part of the bed.
I built the bed out of bricks I scrounged from a building on the site that they took down and just stacked them to form the bed. Drainage not a problem as the water percolates through the aggregate and becomes saturated it drains out of the bottom layer of bricks.
Ami
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