Vegetables · Cool
Arugula
Brassicaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 10 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–10a
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 6 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:raised-bed mixsandy
- Drainage (prefers)
- normal
Seed & start
Direct sow
Sow directly into the bed — no pre-culture needed.
Stachi's tip
Arugula grows fast and bolts fast in heat. Sow a few rows every 3 weeks for continuous young leaves. If it bolts, let it flower (edible) or pull it out.
Sowing
Harvest
Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline+gpt-5-review
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage
Articles about this plant
The raised bed in the first heatwave: when shade helps — and when it hurts
The first 30-degree week arrives earlier every year than you'd think. What in the raised bed really needs shade, what the sun can handle, and why a shade net is sometimes the wrong move.
My raised bed only gets 3 hours of sun — what's actually worth growing?
Behind the shed, under a walnut tree, against a north wall — not every raised bed has guaranteed sunshine. 10 varieties that deliver anyway. And three you can skip.
The last centimetre in your bed — plants that fill every gap
Between the tomatoes, on the edge, in the row where nothing seems to fit: four plants that are fast, stay small, and improve your main crops along the way.
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