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Sharing Garden
Experiences with
Balornock Primary
School in Glasgow, Scotland
In the spring of
2008, fourth grade teachers, Susan
Craig and Michele Rodier, and second
grade teachers, Brooke Hobson and
Heidi Weber, became part of a garden
information exchange with students
at Balornock Primary School in
Glasgow, Scotland.
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 Students
exchanged letters and photos about
themselves, their schools, their
communities, and their school
gardens (information
exchanged). We learned that
while our students refer to working
in "class gardens", students at
Balornock Primary plant in their
"allotment", and a turnip is called
a "neep" or "turnshie". White
turnips are sometimes used in soup,
but the favored turnip is orange and
is part of a national dish of
haggis, neeps, and potatoes.
We noted that the beds at their
school were raised to a much higher
level than ours. In early
spring, we plant many of the same
seeds as the students at Balornock
Primary, but our weather allowed us
to direct sow more seeds outside
than our Scottish counterparts who
start some seeds inside for
transplanting when the conditions
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