Arugula Eruca sativa

How to sow arugula: Direct seed or transplant in wide rows or raised beds

Sun requirement for arugula: Plant in Full Sun

Arugula has been planted 52 times by Growstuff members.

Mildly bitter, sometimes peppery, salad green. Fast-growing with deeply lobed leaves. Prefers cooler weather, bolts in the heat.

Predictions

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

14 weeks

First harvest expected

8 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

12 weeks after planting

Height

30cm

Spread

20cm

Row Spacing

25cm

Companions

rosemary

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What people are saying about arugula

Dinner from the garden

by shiny,

Chicken simmered in broth and white wine,with lemon, crispy sage leaves, polenta chips with parmesan, and a salad of arugula , pear and candied walnuts.

lemons sage arugula pears walnuts

Planting outdoors & fruit trees

by maco,

Today I transplanted the cabbage and onion seedlings outside and planted seeds for: arugula, garlic (well, cloves, not seeds–forced in the fridge), mesclun salad mix, kale, cauliflower, and …

cabbages onions arugula garlic kale cauliflowers beets apples peaches almonds plums

This weekend I had two full days to really focus on the yard, and I made the most of it. With the intermittent help of several others over the course of the weekend, I got both easement planter boxes filled with compost and soil, cleaned up and weeded the alley, got the stump pulled from the coni…

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Getting ready for spring!

by maco,

I've got seeds either on-hand or ordered for just about everything I'm starting from seed this year. I've been working out what I want to plant, and this is the plan I've come up with for the 72 square feet of my backyard raised beds:

![garden plan](http://mackenzie.morgan.name/tmp/garden_plan…

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Optimism is... planting butternuts at Christmas

by Skud,

Like I said in my last post, everything has been late and disorganised this spring. However, I'm trying to get some stuff planted juuuusssssttttt under the wire for December, and hopefully they'll have time to grow before things cool down in the new year. Last year I was pretty amazed how lon…

butternut squash sunflowers nasturtia arugula purslane nettles

A slow start to summer

by Skud,

I'm so very, very behind on my gardening. I was travelling heaps and had lots of other commitments through October/November, which is peak spring planting time here, and nothing got done. I've come to the realisation that if I'm going to do work that involves that sort of travel, I need to cut …

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Arugula flowers

by amy,

I got way too busy for a couple of weeks, and it decided to get hot right in the middle of that time – so of course various things in my early salad stuff have bolted like crazy.

Arugula flowers are, first of all, surprisingly beautiful. I know this isn't meant to be a site…

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Transplant day!

by inkstone,

I originally wanted to do this yesterday but it rained in the morning so that kinda put a damper on things.

So I did it all today instead! A bunch of the seeds I wintersowed in the milk jugs and soda bottles were getting crowded so it was time to move them to their bigger (permanent) container…