Arugula
Arugula: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Rocket, also known as arugula, is a leafy vegetable valued for its peppery, sometimes slightly bitter flavour. The name covers two notable plants in the Brassicaceae family: salad rocket, Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa, also known as Eruca sativa, and wild rocket, Diplotaxis tenuifolia. They share culinary uses but differ in their life cycle, foliage and flowers.Salad rocket is annual. It first develops leaves, then produces a flowering stem and seeds within its life cycle. Wild rocket is perennial and generally has a longer productive lifespan. In this context, wild identifies a species also sold for garden cultivation, rather than guaranteeing that every leaf sold under the name has been gathered from a wild population. Both plants can form part of a vegetable garden.Salad rocket leaves are often relatively broad, with lobes of varying depth. Wild rocket usually has narrower, more deeply divided leaves. Shape also changes with the selection and…
