Thank you so much, Fred!
So basically, it is almost all pine fines with approx. 10% sand?
When I filled my newest raised bed, I used pine fines and bagged top soil at about the same percentage as you use. When I transplanted each daylily into the raised bed, I also added all the potting mix (in it's pot) into the hole with each daylily. I had mixed in alfalfa, milorganite, and worm compost in the pine fines. A week later I watered everything with MiracleGro. I see new leaves and even some new fans on my plants. They were all planted in the new raised bed on Oct. 4th. I was hoping I did it right.
I remembered about the high acidity of pine fines, so I sprinkled some lime in also (before adding the plants). And to top it off, I threw in some big, fat earth worms that I had found in another bed I was amending.
