How can a disabled non-gardener keep a large garden looking ok?

[Roseshavethorns]

I'm hoping for some advice.
DH died very suddenly in January (he was only in his fifties). He enjoyed gardening and we have an extremely large garden. I, on the other hand, don't enjoy gardening and am disabled so very limited in what I can do.
The majority of the garden is grass and I am buying a light mower so I can hopefully keep it tidy. The borders have established flowers and I am hoping that I can basically leave them alone and they will be ok. Is this realistic?
We have some trees and bushes but hopefully they won't need anything.
There are a couple of fairly large veg plots that are covered in nettles that I have no clue what to do with. My idea was to pull as many weeds as I can and order some wild flower seed and seed balls, just throw it down and forget it. Will this work?
I can't afford a gardener.
Any advice for keeping it looking ok for the next year or so with the least effort would be very welcome.

Do robot mowers work on hills? I remember asking DH about getting one and he said it wouldn't work.
I think putting the plots ""to sleep" is probably the way to go. I just have to work out the logistics.
Thanks for the help.

A gardener may not be as bad cost wise as you might think depending where you are, especially if its just general maintenence through this spring/summer.

Ours is £20 an hour and can do in one hour what would take us a week or more.

We are busy people with a big garden and do very little gardening . We have a big lawn and lots of shrubs .
we have a robot lawn mower that keeps on top of it well . A great buy.

We tried the wild flower seed in a big area that we didn’t want to mow. It looks a real mess. Lots of tall straggly weeds plants rather than flowers . Covering the veg beds is a better idea if tidy is inportant.

Could you fill the raised beds with soft fruit. I find black currant and gooseberries really easy.

Or shrub roses. A prune and a feed( an handful chucked under twice a year at the right times) and that’s it.

Our whole garden is on a hill, with a steep slope near the road and ours does fine. Each robot will tell you the maximum gradient it can cope with. The main issue is divots in my experience. Chuck some soil in any and stand on it to level it and that's the main problems sorted.

This is a great idea!

Only the other day I saw someone on my local FB site offering up their large garden for anyone that wanted to grow veg! Lots of takers too!

Don’t get seed balls, they can be lovely but in some cases wild flowers = weeds and they will keep coming back and go everywhere.

the robot mower is a brilliant idea, cover the beds with cardboard which will keep the weeds down for the year. My mum pays a local gardener £25 a week, he does an hour most weeks and it looks better than when my late dad was in his prime and keeping on top of it.

I never thought about returning the plots to grass. The problem would be trying to keep it tidy as there are wooden edges so I couldn't mow it.
The timber to make veg beds is quite expensive. You could do a deal of exchanging labour for goods: "if you flatten the beds for me / return them to grass then you can have the timber".
Unless you think that the veg beds will be a real selling point next year, but people don't tend to miss what isn't there.

Just saw this in a gardening magazine - might be perfect for you :

Actually sorry - article made it sound like it was more about matching people in circumstances like yours, to people who wanted to garden. But it’s just a directory of gardeners - first one I picked at random was £25ph, so not cheap …