Gardening rules according to Bogs.
Get someone else to do it, then the wife can vent her anger on them.
OR
Spray EVERYTHING with weedkiller, then nothing else to worry about.
If I could buy packets of grow your own concrete, I would be first in the queue.
As you have most probably guessed, green sticky up things in the ground ain't my scene. My better half grows things in big pots, so when they die, they are easy to get rid of in the bin, then stick another thing destined to die in the pot. I jest you not, I have stuck silk flowers in pots around my garden, just to give her indoors something nice to look at (as well as me).
Bogs.