“Less experimentation and growing more of what worked last year, maximizing yield if possible.”
I agree! It’s taken me six years here at my ‘new’ garden, and I have it down to a science.
I’ll try one or two things new every season; usually flowers of some sort, or a new (to me) salad green, or a better way to use my (unheated) greenhouse, but other than that, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! :)
Last year I tried potatoes in a super large patio container. Meh! What I really need to do this year is buy soil for the containers as ours has too much nitrogen. Going to do redskins again and carrots. The root crops don’t do well here and I learned it was the nitrogen. Everything else grows great in this soil . I would love to grow some beautiful long carrots.