Pause crop development

Sometimes I want to use different stages of potatoes, wheat, carrots, beetroot, melons and pumpkins while in farmland, yet they are stuck continuing to grow. It would be useful to have someway to pause these resources in their development stage to be used at decoration. Perhaps using honey similar to how it works with Copper, but any way would work as the main goal is to use different stages of farm development already in the game as decoration.