By: Sayward

Sayward — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:04:48 +0000

@ Dylan – Thanks so much once again! Great garden advice, as always, I’ll be on the lookout for rustic arugula . . . even the name is wonderful. =)

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:26:53 +0000

Oh, arugula!, roquette, Eruca sativa…probably my third favorite vegetable to grow after chicory and garlic! Your recipe sounds fantastic and I will have to try it soon, let you know what I think. I could go on and on about arugula (believe me I could) but one quick tip: if you are a lazy gardener like me but love arugula try growing rustic arugula (Diplotaxis muralis). This tastes just as good (in informal unofficial taste tests everyone I have tried it on prefers it)and is becoming the rage in baby salad mixes because the leaf shape is more fern-like and no matter how big or old it gets can still be cut up into ‘baby’ pieces with natural shape. What makes it so easy to grow is the fact that it is a perennial, coming back year after year and takes longer to go to seed in the spring so you get a longer harvest and only need to plant once for many years of harvest. The flowers are yellow and smaller so not as dramatic an edible flower but the leaf shape I think makes up for the flowers. I grow both and get an even longer season of harvest than either would give alone…Eruca sativa sprouts in the fall in my garden and is the first green to be edible in the spring, but is soon followed by the Diplotaxis muralis which lasts far after my early spring Erucas have all gone to flower.Most catalogs now carry it.

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