Table 1 Summary data derived from garden surveys in Leicester, Cardiff and Oxford48 giving frequency and areas of garden either confirmed to be under cultivation for food production when surveyed, or recorded as having non-specific cultivated areas which could have been used for food production (these exclude cultivated areas confirmed to be non-food producing at the time of survey, e.g. flower beds).
Number of gardens | Frequency (% of gardens) | Total surveyed area (m2) | Mean % area for all gardens | Mean % area for only gardens with either type of cultivation present | Mean, range & SD area (m2) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Confirmed food crop cultivation | 26 | 16.7% | 529.4 | 1.9% | 10.1% | 3.4 0–69 11.2 |
Non-specific cultivation | 144 | 92.3% | 5516.0 | 19.6% | 21.9% | 35.6 0–188 36.9 |
Total surveyed | 156 | — | 28083.8 | — | — | 180.0 14–1084 140.5 |
