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
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Harvest
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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