Members experiment list 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