If you decide not to grow a garden, will you be planting cover crops to rejuvenate the soil? And if so, can I ask which ones you’ve decided on?
Buckwheat is a good cover crop but not a legume so some kind of pea cut before it produces is a good choice. We have problems with common vetch and I don’t like it because it just goes nuts.
Rye is good in cool weather and I should have planted it last fall. It truly is green manure and smells like it when you turn it under as well.
Sometimes I think we’d be better off with raised beds but I like stuff in the ground just because. I have gotten over my shock of concrete blocks and may try that. So many projects and so little time and I am running short of it like we all will.