Rocket Salad, Arugula, Roquette, Rucola, Rugula 'Wild Italian Rocket'

From your friends at Botanical Interests: Wild arugula is a relative of cultivated arugula. It has a slightly stronger, more complex flav...Read Moreor and more deeply lobed leaves that give a gourmet ‘wild’ look to salads. Nothing adds such an exciting, interesting flavor to salads as this green! Its flavor is often described as hot with a hint of nut flavor, tart, and spicy. It is most often eaten raw in salads but can also be steamed or added raw to many other dishes (such as pizza). The leaves are tastiest when harvested at 2”-6” long. The mature palnts are smaller than regular arugula, reaching 1’-2. At that time, the edible flowers can be harvested for salads.

A peppery green used in fresh salads or when mature cooked with other greens to add zest. This cultivar is smaller and tangier than Rocket. (35 day).