Eruca sativa
Rocket
Rocket is an easy to grow salad leaf that can also be cooked as a vegetable. It has a peppery flavour. The leaves are deeply pinnately lobed, and the (edible) flowers are white 4-petalled lightly streaked with purple and are followed by long seed-pods.
Contributed by @tiggrx
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Partial shade
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Occasional watering
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Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)
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Moist and free draining
Common name
Rocket
Latin name
Eruca sativa
type
Half hardy herb
family
Brassicaceae
ph
5.5 - 8.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Partial shade
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Frost
Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)
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Soil
Moist and free draining
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Water
Occasional watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When to harvest
full grown dimensions
0.30 M
0.30 M
Eruca sativa
Rocket is an easy to grow salad leaf that can also be cooked as a vegetable. It has a peppery flavour. The leaves are deeply pinnately lobed, and the (edible) flowers are white 4-petalled lightly streaked with purple and are followed by long seed-pods.
Propagating by seed
From Late Winter TO Mid Spring
Sow seeds under glass in late winter, or outdoors in mid Spring. Choose a sunny site, and soil that drains well. Sow the seeds in rows, and as the seedlings grow thin them to twp inches apart, and then thin them again when they have grown sufficiently to need more space to grow. Sow in succession monthly for continuous crops
Planting
From Late Spring TO Early Summer
Plant out seedlings grown under glass to a sunny well-drained site when the seedlings are big enough to handle and after risk of frost has passed
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