When I was a kid, the only garden chores they trusted me to do were to turn leaves under in fall and fork them up again in spring, mow the lawn, and "manage" the compost heap when we didn't just burn all the leaves.
Composting, building new beds and cultivating the soil are still my favorite parts!
Well, that plus collecting and trading seeds. But that is probably driven by advanced, congenital O. Seed D..