Members' experiments
Members experiment list pre 2015
Each year we organise several citizen science experiments that our members can participate in - this is the list of experiments pre 2015.
2013
- Nitrogen fixation by different legumes
- Amaranth as a novel crop
- Cut and come again leeks
- A survey of bumblebees (in association with Coventry University)
2012
- Growing wheat at home
- Shark’s fin melon as a novel crop
- Blight resistant tomatoes
2011
- Blight resistant tomato varieties
- Mango ginger as a novel crop
- Feeding plants in pots
2010
- Melcourt Growbark as an ingredient in seed growing media
- Tree spinach as a novel crop
- A survey of butterflies in the garden
- Slug Lady cardboard barriers
- An invertebrate survey of compost (in association with Plymouth University)
2009
- Quinoa as a novel crop
- Comparing old and new varieties of peas
- A survey of garden slugs and snails
- 2008 (50th Anniversary year)
- Evaluating Russian comfrey
- Comparison of old and new varieties of tomato and lettuce
- The potential of winter salads
- A survey of garden bees
- The ecological footprint of gardening
2007
- Chickpeas as a novel crop
- Edible flowers
- The ecological footprinting of gardens and allotments
- A survey of garden spiders
- A survey of garden frogs and birds (in association with Froglife, RSPB and BTO)
2006
- Carrot flavour test
- Summer cover crops
- Seaweed for controlling rose blackspot
- Using plants with seed heads to encourage birds in the garden
2005
- Organic box scheme study - prices and availability
- Comparison of onions from sets or seeds
- Soya as a novel crop
- Evaluating flowers attractive to predators and parasites of pests