It is up to you to learn how to grow your plants. You all know that garden plants need soil and water, but you need to learn the proper technique for getting them to grow into something that can be eaten. Maturity means that you will have grown a set of seeds that are ready to plant next year. I think that it's important that you learn to grow plants that you can eat. Interview people that grow heirloom seeds.
Many people grow heirloom seeds and their reasons are diverse.
Find out why many people have chosen to grow heirloom seeds. If you know someone who grows heirloom seeds, you should interview them. You can interview them about when the family stopped saving seeds from their crops to replant the following year and why. My family collected the best ears of corn and replanted these the following year until about 1940. If you don't know anyone to interview about why they grow heirloom seeds, here is a list of people that you can email.