Rocket - Salad - Eurica Sativa
500 Seeds
Sow April - August (all year indoors)
Annual
Height 20-100cm (8-40in)
Early sowings can be made in containers in a cold glasshouse,0.5cm (1/4in) deep in rows 25-30cm (10-12in) apart . For micro salads sow every 7 days all year round in trays under glass or on a windowsill and harvest as seedlings to use as a garnish.
Cream flowers with purple veins. Oval, green, lance shaped leaves.
Rich in antioxidants.
Rocket - Salad
Also known as colewort, roquette, ruchetta, rucola, rucoli and rugula.
From the family Brassicaceae.
Grown as an edible and popular herb in Italy since Roman times, arugula was mentioned by various ancient Roman classical authors as an aphrodisiac, most famously in a poem long ascribed to the famous first century Roman poet Virgil, Moretum, which contains the line: "et Venerem revocans eruca morantem" ("and the rocket, which revives drowsy Venus [sexual desire]"), and in the Ars Amatoria of Ovid. Some writers assert that for this reason, during the Middle Ages, growing arugula was forbidden in monasteries. Nonetheless, the plant was listed in a decree by Charlemagne as among the 802 pot herbs suitable for growing in gardens.