My new veg garden

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Well I have been gardening for over 60 years now and have always been very successful in growing plants and flowers and vegetables in my Northwest English garden, and I have always grown my vegetables in the ground, I also had a terrible slug and snail problem and underground keel slugs but my new partner and I are not finding it so easy now to do all the digging, ( although I have got a rotovator to do the heavy work), so we decided to do a raised garden and I only wished I could have afforded to have done it years ago, we have also netted the garden right across an area of 35 × 17 and now we don’t get bird damage and the dreaded white cabbage butterfly damaging the brassicas, initially we levelled the ground and then covered it with weed screen material I then made up the five 6×6 boxes with tanalised wood then lined them with damp course plastic so that the wood not get wet from the soil, these were then were placed on the ground with walking space in between and then I used 10 mm limestone grit for the paths, around two sides I have made flower beds and these act as a barrier to stop slug and snails coming in from neighbours gardens, so any slug pellets that I use are not put on the vegetable garden, as I been growing everything organically for the last 30 years although the slugs and snails do not take to kindly to having to cross a path of limestone chippings.