That is the secret - dress up in style and let someone else do the dirty work!
I tried to do that with my garden, but my wife wouldn’t volunteer to do the work...maybe we need to have some kids so they can “volunteer.”
On another note, after spring’s garden was completely scorched by the Florida sun and heat - not to mention the insect toll taken.
I have tried a different approach for my fall garden. I moved it so that it was right outside the back door of the house. I made a square foot garden using the oak lumber from our futon that broke over the summer and I subsequently disassembled. Still have pieces left over. This weekend,
I got all the dirt, vermiculite, and sphagnum moss together and mixed it all up. Made a grid from some cable tv wire I found hanging from a giant wooden pole in the front yard. I stapled lengths of it in place on the perimeter of the box. Planted the grids with broccoli, beans, tomato seeds and a plant i bought for some strange reason at Homie D the previous week, lettuce, spinach, red beets, cucumbers, and sowed together radishes and carrots.
Armadillo visited that night and dug it all up. So I figured he had found all the grubs there were to find and fixed it. Same story the next night. This time, I got out the roll of 1 foot tall chicken wire I had gotten at St. Vinnie’s for $6 and made a perimeter fence on top of the box. He hasn’t been back in there since.
Some of the radishes are already up as are a couple of red beets I think and some spinach and lettuce. I was rather surprised. Oh, and I also mixed some “turkey poop” into the soil when I mixed it together...this ought to be an interesting experiment. :)