Arugula Rocket Flower
You can even mix them half and half with spring mesclun for a zesty side salad.
Arugula rocket flower. Can be enjoyed as a salad soloist simply accompanied by a vinaigrette dressing. Arugula is sometimes called rocket maybe because it grows from seed to maturity so quickly. Plant early or late in the growing season and you will be able to harvest as soon as 4 weeks after sowing. Rocket or arugula american english eruca vesicaria.
Heres how to plant and grow arugula in your garden. A perennial form diplotaxis tenuifolia is often gathered in the wild in italy. Best harvested young after about 35 days. Sativa miller thell brassica eruca l is an edible annual plant in the family brassicaceae used as a leaf vegetable for its fresh tart bitter and peppery flavor.
It is perfect for the early spring garden but can also be planted in the late summer for a fall harvest. Seeds can be sown any time during the season. Its a cool weather green. The rocket most often cultivated and used in salads is the annual known aseruca sativa syn.
Also known as rocket or roquette arugula is a fast growing cool season salad green that adds a tangy mustard like flavor to salads. Arugula is a fast growing cool season green. I sowed arugularocket in an outside pot 2 months ago. You can use arugula flowers as a salad or soup garnish.
As it was my first sowing of rocket it turned out to be too dense so i have thinned it out. You can start seed indoors four to six weeks before your last frost date but arugula seed can handle chilly soil and you might want to wait and direct seed one to two weeks before your last frost date. It is also referred to as italian wild arugula rustic arugula and perennial wall rocket. It was growing nicely but all of a sudden it started sending out long shoots that now have flowers on top of them.
Arugula flowers are white pinwheels with burgundy center stripes and veins. Versicaria subsp sativa variously known as arugula rucola or roquette. You can find seedlings of arugula but it is usually started from seed. Arugula is often found in mesclun mixes.