I take it this new garden is "organic". The plants look very starved which will make them ripe for disease and insect attacks.
How did you build your raised bed and what did you put in it and in what quantity?
Tomatoes are heavy feeders and not a beginner plant. The tomatoes need a complete fertilizer to start with. Fish emulsion or seaweed extract weekly. If you want nutrients to get to the plants faster then a water soluble fertilizer half strength every week for three weeks and the fourth week just plain water. Rain water is best if you have it. You will need to supplement tomatoes weekly in an a new organic garden.
Mel's Mix recipe for raised bed by volume
1/3 peat moss or coco coir ( wash coir before using it can have high salt content)
1/3 blended compost ( at least 5 different sources.)
1/3 vermiculite or perlite
A raised bed is essentially a giant container so you could fill the bed with potting mix. Below is a link for a few potting mix recipes.
https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/lawn-and-gard ... tting-mix/
While each of these recipes provide good structure, water retention and drainage, they do not provide any nutrients. Fertilizer still has to be added. How much really should be based on a soil test. There are pros and cons to synthetic and organic fertilizers. Organic gardens take a while to catch up to the yield of a conventional garden and nutrients may not be available to plants when they need it. Organic nitrogen is hard to get and since organic fertilizers must be mineralized by soil organisms, 1. the organisms must be present in the soil in sufficient quantity. It will not be the case of plants grown in small containers or new gardens comprised mainly of bagged material. 2. Organisms and unfinished compost will compete with plants for nutrients 3. Because the organic numbers are low and not all of the nutrients are readily available, there may not be sufficient nitrogen available to meet the needs of very young growing plants or heavy feeders in a timely manner so they need to be supplemented. 4. Synthetic fertilizers are readily available but you need to be careful since the higher the numbers the less quantity you need to apply. 5. Both synthetic and organic fertilizers can be high in salt. Organic fertilizers require a larger volume since there is much more filler than synthetic although the filler is also organic matter. Organic fertilizers may contain pathogens like salmonella, e coli, and prions depending on the source and how well the product was processed or aged. Nitrogen requirement should be given in installments according to the needs of the plants and not all at once. Synthetic fertilizers do give you options to choose a blended fertilizer or just a single nutrient. Organic fertilizers usually contain other components and are more expensive and less readily available than synthetic.
My garden, by soil test, only requires very little nitrogen and nothing else. I give the nitrogen as a side dressing in 2-3 increments depending on the crop and the days to maturity. Synthetic fertilizers can correct nutrient deficiencies quickly but in a garden I use a hybrid approach. I add organic matter 4 inches every time I renovate the garden. It ends up adding things I don't want like phosphorus, but it does improve tilth. Organic matter sinks over time so it is inherently unstable so you have to keep adding it to maintain the soil biota which needs both carbon and nitrogen for a balanced diet.
I choose to use synthetic fertilizer because I do not like to use animal byproducts which may be carriers of pathogens and I do not want to have to physically move that much volume all the time. Synthetic fertilizer does not harm soil organisms if used properly, but tilling does. Minimizing tilling does help preserve soil organisms and a few earthworms as well.
Other people do want to remain totally organic and they are willing to put in the time and effort to do that. They still get great gardens once their gardens have aged and balanced.
https://www.planetnatural.com/organic-g ... rtilizers/
P.S. I just saw your post. Some mixes are o.k. some are not. You can put a potting mix in a raised bed and plant in that although it will drain and dry very fast. Most potting mixes have some fertilizer.
You do need to follow the directions. Anything that says for in ground and not for containers is essentially compost. It needed to be mixed at a minimum 50/50 with garden soil or top soil and fertilizer added. It does explain why the plants are doing so poorly. Most plants cannot be planted only in compost.
