I sympathize. If you're a resident of Minnesota, you could give me permission to grow a plant for you, so you could experience the difference for yourself. Otherwise, if you invest in living soil in one pot, you only need to water it twice a week. (Don't forget the peat moss and greensand!) If that's still too labor-intensive, you might try hooking up the organic soil to your auto-watering rig. In organic soil, weed doesn't usually mind wet feet, unless it's a hardcore desert plant, like Kif.
EDIT: If you rig it up, tarp. the exposed soil, to minimize black flies. Unless your drip system has factory ferts. in it? I'll address that: Yes, the chemicals are purer from the factory, and often derived from organic sources. However, chemistry is usually applied in the extraction of the various chemicals, which doesn't factor for the natural balance of minerals and chemicals available in soil and the rate at which your plant prefers to absorb them. Nutes are like "force feeding." If you grow in healthy dirt with a good microbial population and maybe some fungus, you allow the plant to take its time, which ultimately makes it a BEAST, 'cause it speeds up growth as veg. advances. The salt in FFs kills living soil by messing with the microbes and impeding mycelial formation.
Right now, I'm harvesting salads off my Urban Poison veg., as well as my Jack Herer. These two are my biggest plants right now, but still need a couple weeks before they're really buff. Because of the organic conditions of their growth, their leaves provide me with minerals and nutrients from flora, which is a great way to uptake vitamins. And I grow 'em under a teasing, blue light that has them constantly in preflower. So the salads have a wonderful, physically stimulating effect.
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