Pacific Northwest Gardening: help with watering dilemma, 1 by Soferdig

Soferdig wrote:
I use my own compost = everything I cut, chop, chip, pick, pull, kill, and have given to me by farmers, sawyers, mills, home depot torn bags, side of road chipped trees, and a million other sources. Wood in the form of sawdust, chips, or bark will hold moisture in the soil and all you need to do is add 1 part manure to 4 parts wood product and you mix it in the raised beds and you can water much less frequently. Oh and the worms will appear out of nowhere to vermicompost your soil. This bed I water once weekly and the soil is primarily clay, wood product, horse manure and compost.