It totally does not look like it, but this vegetable garden-to-be took me most of the weekend. That is primarily because I painted the blocks with masonry paint so they'd look nicer and not wick so much moisture out of the soil, but still. The work crew two doors down replaced a roof, a retaining wall, 20 windows, and the siding on an entire house in the time it took me to get 10 cinder blocks into a tilty rectangle.
I just wish I could explain why I spent days painstakingly waterproofing cinder blocks only to turn around and half-assedly move some dirt around with the shovel for about 10 minutes when it came time to level the soil they're sitting on. That was a failure of patience and effort. The soil is not level. It is actually quite rumply.
The result is the blocks themselves are impervious to water, but the giant gaps under and between them are not. Even the laziest gardening methods require too much effort for me, apparently. I will have to find some sort of crap to shove in the cracks, I guess, and hope for the best. Maybe it will work like a charm and I will feed you delicious butter lettuce all winter long.