Winter culture

Winter culture (also winter fruit) describes plant stocks that overwinter in the field.

• Sweet grasses , which can be assigned to winter crops, are sown or planted in autumn and usually require a frost period for vernalization as a prerequisite for the initiation of the generative phase or shooting . The winter forms of the cereals have a higher yield due to the long vegetation period and survive the spring drought more easily than the summer fruits . However, winter crops are threatened by wintering . In the event of loss, however, these crops can be replaced by summer crops such as corn .

• Numerous dicotyledonous crops do not require a frost period but a short day period of several months for the vegetative growth phase ( photoperiodism ).

Examples of winter crops are:

• Winter crops such as winter wheat , winter barley, and winter rye
• Winter vegetables such as white cabbage , red cabbage , cauliflower , Brussels sprouts , kale , kohlrabi , root parsley , parsnips , salsify , leek , turnip , chicory , Jerusalem artichoke and lamb's lettuce
• Winter rape , winter poppy

Web links

• Winter cereals in the AID Agrilexikon
• Winter rape in the AID Agrilexikon
• Reference to proplanta.de
• Reference to infoflora.ch

literature

• Gerhard Geisler : Yield Physiology of Cultures of the Temperate Climate . Publisher Paul Parey Berlin and Hamburg 1983.
• Ernst Klapp : Textbook of arable and plant cultivation , Paul Parey publishing house Berlin 1941; 6th edition 1967.
• Manfred G. Raupp: What the grandfather already knew - thoughts on the development of agriculture in Staffort ; Lörrach and Stutensee-Staffort Citizens' Office 2005.