I know, sounds strange. Let me explain…
When I was in grade school, every year our school participated in a fall fair in a nearby village. There were three legged races and other games. You could enter art work or hand writing samples to be judged. Or, you could enter garden produce. Each spring, the school would provide us with our choice of a package of flower seeds and a package of vegetable seeds. Over the summer we would plant and then care for these seeds, and then enter the results in the fall fair. I always chose bachelor buttons for the flowers and carrots for the vegetables.