Notes
Standard garden arugula selected for delayed bolt.
Cultivars / Leafy greens
Slow Bolt
Arugula · Eruca vesicaria
DTM
35 d
52 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
5
1½ in in-row
Density
40
plants / bed-ft
Yield
0.5
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$5.28
$12.00 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Direct seed
- Cell size
- —
- Nursery lead
- direct only
- Germination
- 4 d
- Germ temp
- 40°F – 85°F (opt 70°F)
- Seed spacing
- 1 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 5
- In-row
- 1½ in
- Seed spacing
- 1 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 40
- Plants / 50 ft
- 2000
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 35 d
- Holding
- 5 d
- Occupancy
- 52 d
- Multicut
- yes · 2 cuts · 12 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.3
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 0.5
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.5 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $8.00 / $12.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.9 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 70.1
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Light
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 0.9 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.22 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.5 / 0.1 / 0.5 lb
- Family
- Brassicaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- —
- First harvest
- 2026-04-08
- Successions that fit
- 12 · every 10 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 114 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 2353 seeds · 2000 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $176.00 / $264.00
Companions
lettuce · carrot
Avoid
strawberry