You can try growing vegetables or flowers of your own! It’s easy to plant seeds in your backyard, in a pot, or even in a Styrofoam cup. All you need is soil, seeds, water, and some patience. Read the instructions on the seed packet (or look in a gardening book in your local library) to find out how deep to plant your seeds and how much water to give them.

While you’re waiting for those seeds to grow into plants, check out these wacky gardening facts!

• What does baseball have to do with gardening? The famous ballplayer Babe Ruth is said to have worn a cabbage leaf under his cap while he played the game. It kept him cool, and he changed it every other inning.
• Ever wonder how the daisy got its name? Since the yellow center looks like the sun, many people knew it as the “day’s eye.” After a while, it came to be called the “daisy!”
• New Jersey is responsible for producing more than 60% of the eggplant in the entire world!
• Wouldn’t it be nice to be as cool as a cucumber? The insides of cucumbers on the vine can be twenty degrees chillier than the air outside on a hot day.
• The rafflesia is the biggest flower in the world. It can grow to be up to three feet across!
• You may know that trees change carbon dioxide into oxygen. But did you know that a single tree can remove twenty-six pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in one year?
• You can eat each and every plant in Tomorrowland at Disneyland — they’re all edible!
• April is National Gardening Month — so get out there and grow!