Although Miracle Gro soils don't rate all that high on my scorecard of bagged soils and certainly an expensive option at best, the 'Garden Soil' is perfectly reasonable to use to fill raised beds.

Miracle Gro potting soil has label warning against using for inground planting purposes and I wouldn't recommend the garden soil for container use but perfectly adequate for your raised beds.

In the future you may want to consider just bring in compost or other organic matter to lighten your clay soil and create planting beds. Not the fastest process but far more beneficial to the soil than the MG products and significantly less expensive.

Thanks gardenpal. I was about ready to start digging everything up and planting somewhere else. Next time I'll read the label.

What did the label actually say that made you thing you would have problems? It's expensive and there are cheaper (and more labor intensive) ways to get good soil, but I would think you could garden in the stuff right out of the bag.

I use MG garden soil all of the time for my raised beds. I often mix in a bit of manure/humus and mayber some compost. Works very well.