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If you are up to bricklaying, and can get your hands on some cheap used/scrap brick (does not have to be quality needed for building, even partially spalled will be OK) it is easy, though a bit of work involved, to build your raised beds walled in brick. This would be particularly suitable for building upon a concrete base.

You have to leave a few lower joints void of cement, for drainage.

It does result in an almost maintenance free, solution which hardly deteriorates over normal usage.

I have for some time, been slowly but progressively replacing my wood with brick as the wood rots.

Added advantage is brick will bear a scaffold board to avoid treading the bed, for deep bed technique of growing produce.