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 are right.