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coffeeandchlorophyll said:
For example--My unpopular opinion is that Swiss Chard, albeit beautiful, is actually pretty lousy to eat. Therefore, if I grow it, it's almost exclusively for looks and not for eating!

Another one--Hot composting, and determining all the optimal ratios to get your pile hot enough, requires too many inputs and gets too complicated for me. Therefore, I'll just stick to my passive practices, even if they are slower!

Chard, never ate it, and am a bit curious, but the other half buys some the past few years, so , I stick it where it is not in the way, but can be seen as it is rather attractive .

Composting: -- I both gardens a cold wire cage in which I put , beside leaves off of the roses, debris, garden or kitchen (and in the past cat litter) and let it sit for years till the bottom part starts falling out of the wire bin, at which point , it now, is mostly used for mulch over the potatoes.
I do dig a fairly large holes in spring or fall and bury garden debris, including stuff sitting on top of the compost heap that looks like it will be there for a long time to come.

My tender care of the garden, strictly, depends on my attitude of the moment for X number of days, or weeks.
Some times, reading instructions or looking on-line for eXpert opinions, and then at other times , I have some thing, or need some thing and toss in garden, use, buy what ever is the least laborious.
I do miss the days from ten years back when I had MANY jugs/bags of product for exact uses in the garden.
That came to an end mostly for monetary reasons, but, been there , done that, also had a large effect on my garden practices.

I do miss the days when I tried to keep the gardens looking like the prim, proper and neat gardens -- (including lawns which I have let become pathetically sad) -- Ma, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa used to have , but when one is , with few exceptions, the only one who is looking at and being annoyed or pleased with what it is, apathy and laziness creep into ones methods.