Notes
Milder than wild rocket. 7-day successions, 5-line seeder. Bolts in 80°F long days — switch to shade cloth or pause June–August. Flea beetles: insect net.
Cultivars / Leafy greens
Astro
Arugula · Eruca vesicaria
DTM
32 d
49 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
5
1 in in-row
Density
60
plants / bed-ft
Yield
0.45
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$4.14
$10.00 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Direct seed
- Cell size
- —
- Nursery lead
- direct only
- Germination
- 4 d
- Germ temp
- 40°F – 75°F (opt 60°F)
- Seed spacing
- ½ in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 5
- In-row
- 1 in
- Seed spacing
- ½ in
- Plants / linear ft
- 60
- Plants / 50 ft
- 3000
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 32 d
- Holding
- 7 d
- Occupancy
- 49 d
- Multicut
- yes · 2 cuts · 10 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.2
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 0.45
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.5 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $6.00 / $10.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.25
- Weekly water
- 0.75 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 37.5
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 58.4
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 0.8 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.2 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 0.7 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.4 / 0.1 / 0.4 lb
- Family
- Brassicaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- —
- First harvest
- 2026-04-05
- Successions that fit
- 16 · every 7 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 121 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 3530 seeds · 3000 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $124.20 / $207.00
Companions
lettuce · onion
Avoid
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