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 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

Cambridge roller: 26.08.2025

Germination: 

 

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

Sowing: 26.08.2025

Cambridge roller: 26.08.2025

Germination: 

not stained

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/m²TKGKFxKF %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Winter feed barley 2-rowCalifornia30053,099160,6

Sowing: 

Germination: 

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

Sowing: 

Germination: 

not stained

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/m²TKGKF %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Winter rye (Hybrid)KWS Serafino22034,59480,7

Sowing: 

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

Sowing: 

Germination: 

no stained

Spring types and varieties

Soybean (Glycine max)

Family: Legume (Fabaceae)

 

Type        VarietyGrains/m²TKGKF %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
SoybeanArnold55198,294116,0

Sowing: 29.04.2025

Germination:

not treated
SoybeanArnold55198,294116,0

Sowing: 29.04.2025

Germination:

Inoculation with:

Potato (Solanum tuberosum)

Family: Solanum (Solanaceae)

 

Art                      VarietyTuber/m²MeasuresFertilisationPlant protection

Potato (very early)

Cooking type: waxy

 

Glorietta4,6

Plantation: 11.04.2025

Sprout:

08.05.2025 150 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)

not treated

Heap dams: 28.05.2025

Potato (very early)

Cooking type: waxy

Glorietta4,6

Plantation:  11.04.2025

Sprout:

08.05.2025 150 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)

15.04.2025 VA 2,0 l/ha Bandur + 2 kg/ha Artist

Interrow Cultivato

Heap dam: 28.05.205

Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. altissima)

Family: Amaranths (Amaranthaceae)

 

Type        VarietyGrains/m²TKGKF %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Sugar  beetJellera KWS10

Sowing: 22.04.2025

Germination: 09.05.2025

08.05.2025 80 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)

not treated

Sugar  beetJellera KWS10

Sowing: 22.04.2025

Germination: 09.05.2025

08.05.2025 80 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)20.05.2025 2,0  l/ha Betanal, 1,5 l/ha Goltix, 0,6 l/ha Oblix 

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

Family: Composite (Asteraceae)

Variety: RGT Bellus

 

Type        VarietyGrains/m²TKGKF %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
SunflowerRGT Bellus7,5

Sowing: 28.04.2025

Germination: 09.05.2025

08.05.2025 40 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)not treated
SunflowerRGT Bellus7,5

Sowing: 28.04.2025

Germination: 09.05.2025

08.05.2025 40 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)Interrow Culivator:

Maize (Zea mays)

Family: True grasses (Poaceae)

 

Type                      VarietyGrains/m²TKGKF %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Maize (Reifezahl SM: 230 / K: 220)
Ronaldino10

Sowing: 28.04.2025

Germination: 13.05.2025

08.05.2025 150 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)not treated
Maize (Reifezahl SM: 230 / K: 220)
Ronaldino10

Sowing: 28.04.2025

Germination:  13.05.2025

08.05.2025 150 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)27.05.2025 1,5  l/ha MaisTer power

Spring malting barley (Hordeum vulgare)

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

 

Type                      VarietyGrains/m²TKGKF %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
Spring malting barleySting29059,095180,1

Sowing:  20.03.2025

Germination: 07.04.2025

23.04.2025  80 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)not treated
Spring malting barleySting29059,095180,1

Sowing:  20.03.2025

Germination: 07.04.2025

23.04.2025  80 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)

not stained

17.04.2025 70 g/ha Biathlon 4D + 1l/ha Dash E.C.

Oat (Avena sativa var. aurea)

Family: True grasses (Poaceae)

Morphological characteristics of oat:

Leaf ears: none

Leaf ligule (Ligula): narrow-medium, fringed, toothed

Infructescence: Panicle

Grain:  yellow hulled, white hulled or blackhulled, elongated, whiskers on dehusked grain

 

Type        VarietyGrains/m²TKGKF %Seed rate kg/haMeasuresFertilisationPlant protection
OatLion34041,896148,0

Sowing:  20.03.2025

Germination: 07.04.2025

23.04.2025  80 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)not treated
OatLion34041,896148,0

Sowing:  20.03.2025

Germination: 07.04.2025

23.04.2025  80 kg N/ha (Entec 26%)

not stained

17.04.2025 70 g/ha Biathlon 4D + 1l/ha Dash E.C.