Nemo:
Re: “COME ON DE TOUGHIN UP LOL. How the heck else you gonna clear a garden. Been doing it all my life.”
In VIRGINIA, there would have been two other approaches suggested, neither of which is yours!
1) Just hire some illegals to do it.
2) Buy a couple of truckloads of potting soil and have them dump it wherever I want the garden.
So I may be a wuss about picking out the rocks, but at least I did it!