I use the granny vs. square knot doggerel all the time. “Right over left, left over right,” if you don’t want the knot to loosen. (Or if you prefer, “Left over right, right over left.”) When I stake tomatoes with old panty-hose that I want to re-use, it is “Rght over left, right over left.” And there is the sailing knot (bowline) where the rabbit goes up the hole, around the tree and down the hole.