re: Tips for my raised garden

With as wet as the ground is right now, if you cant dig by hand, then I don't know how you expect anything to grow.

Go dig a trench / hole the size of your raised bed's foot print. Fill with wood debris, larger logs / limbs first gradually mounding them up with smaller limbs on top. Fill with the removed soil as you mound the limbs. Now build your raised bed frame around the mound you created and fill it in with the remainder of the dirt, and add top soil / compost at the same time.

As the logs decompose, they will feed the soil. Over the next few years your spot will improve by leaps and bounds.

Continue to compost and add each spring.