Phytomedicine Educational garden

More than 1.000 cultivated plants are grown worldwide. It is hardly possible to cultivate our crops without any plant protection measures. In the Phytomedicine Aducational garden, we only carry out plant protection measures to a very limited extent, which gives visitors the opportunity to observe the development of weeds, damage caused by animal pests and diseases over the course of the growing season and to observe the effects on the crop. The Phytomedicine Teaching Garden is divided into three parts: Arable Crops, Permanent Crops and Weed Crops.


Arable crops with and without crop protection

In the case of field crops, we focus on the most common crops in Baden-Württemberg. In the Phytomedicine Aducational garden we avoid the use of pesticides as far as possible. Fungicides and insecticides are only used in cases of very heavy infestation. With herbicides we follow a different strategy: half of a crop is treated as under production conditions, the other half of the crop remains completely untreated. By comparing the halves of the plots with and without plant protection, visitors can get an impression of the specific effects of pests and the importance of plant protection for modern agriculture.


Winter types and varieties

Winter field bean Augusta

Field bean (Vicia faba)

Family: Legume (Fabaceae)

Variety: Augusta

Tutorial Field bean

Type                      VarietyGrains/m²TKGKFxFA %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Field beanAugusta2559596154,9

Sowing:  15.10.2025

Germination: 		no measures
Field beanAugusta2559596154,9

Sowing:  15.10.2025

Germination: 

not stained

Winter Pea Feroe

Winter Pea (Pisum sativum)

Family: Legume (Fabaceae)

Variety: Feroe

 

Type        VarietyGrains/m²TKGKFxFA %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Winter PeaFeroe90190,399173,0

Sowing: 

Germination: 

not treated
Winter PeaFeroe90190,399173,0

Sowing: 

Germination: 

not stained

Winter rape LG Auckland

Winter rape (Brassica napus)

Family: Cruciferous (Brassicaceae)

Variety: LG Auckland (Hybrid)

 

Type                      VarietyGrains/m²TKGKFxFA %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Winter rape (Hybrid)LG Auckland555,41953,1

Sowing: 26.08.2025

Reseed:  02.10.2025

Cambridge roller: 26.08.2025

Germination: 09.09.2025

 

no measures
Winter rape (Hybrid)LG Auckland555,41953,1

Sowing: 26.08.2025

Reseed:  02.10.2025

Cambridge roller: 26.08.2025

Germination: 09.09.2025

not stained

07.10.2025 Butisan Gold 2,5 l/ha

Winter feed barley 2-row California

Winter feed barley (Hordeum vulgare var. distichon)

 

Family: True grasses (Poaceae)

Morphological characteristics of barley:

Leaf ears: long, completely enclosing the stem, without cilia

Leaf ligule (Ligula): narrow (1-2 mm), slightly toothed

Infructescence: Spike awned (to 15 cm long), Shapes: two-rowed, multi-rowed, hanging when ripe

Grain:  yellow, pointed oval, glumes fused with grain, no whiskers

 

Tutorial Barley

Type                      VarietyGrains/m²TKGKFxFA %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Winter feed barley 2-rowCalifornia30053,099160,6

Sowing:  02.10.2025

Germination: 14.10.2025 

no measures
Winter feed barley 2-rowCalifornia30053,099160,6

Sowing:  02.10.2025

Germination: 14.10.2025 

not stained

07.10.2025: Herold SC 0,6 l/ha 

Winter rye KWS Serafino

Winter rye (Secale cereale)

Family: True grasses (Poaceae)

Morphological characteristics of Rye:

Leaf auricle: short, not enclosing the stem, not ciliated.

Ligule: narrow, hardly visible

Inflorescence: spike with a border, pendulous

Grain: bluish-green, narrow elongated

Variety: KWS Progas (Hybrid)

 

Type                    VarietyGrains/m²TKGKFxFA %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Winter rye (Hybrid)KWS Serafino22034,59480,7

Sowing:  02.10.2025

Germination: 14.10.2025 		no measures
Winter rye (Hybrid)KWS Serafino22034,59480,7

Sowing:  02.10.2025

Germination: 14.10.2025 

no stained

07.10.2025: Herold SC 0,6 l/ha 

Winter wheat Chevignon

Winter wheat (Triticum aestivum)

Family: True grasses (Poaceae)

Morphological characteristics of wheat:

Leaf ears: short, not enclosing the stem, ciliate

Leaf ligule (Ligula): medium size, serrated

Infructescence:  Spike not awned and round, exception: awnded wheat variety

Grain:  brown-yellow to reddish, oval, medium-length whiskers


Type                      VarietyGrains/m²TKGKFxFA %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Winter wheat (B)Chevignon32039,084,2148,3

Sowing:  15.10.2025

Germination: 		no measures
Winter wheat (B)Chevignon32039,084,2148,3

Sowing:  15.10.2025

Germination: 

not stained

16.10.2025 Malibu 4 l/ha

Spelt Späths Albrubin

Spelt (Triticum aestivum ssp. spelta)

Family: True grasses (Poaceae)

Morphological characteristics of spelt:

Leaf auricles: medium in size (not enclosing culm), partly ciliated

Ligule: short, toothed

Inflorescence: spike without awns, hanging

Grain: 2-3 grains in an enveloping glume (vese), reddish-brown

 

Type                      VarietyGrains/m²TKGKFxFA %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Spelt

Späths Albrubin

295

39,7

91,0

128,7

Sowing:  15.10.2025

Germination: 		no measures
Spelt

Späths Albrubin

295

39,7

91,0

128,7

Sowing:  15.10.2025

Germination: 

not stained