Vegetable / Cool season
Astro Arugula
Fast salad succession crop and cool-season container green.
Peppery greens, milder when young.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 35
- Germination temperature
- 45-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 4 inches
- Row spacing
- 8 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 21 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 6 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 10 days
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Consistent moisture keeps leaves tender.
- Soil
- Loose, fertile soil.
- Watch
- Hot weather makes leaves sharp and triggers flowering.
- quick
- salad
- succession
- containers
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Mustard Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- High Pollinator Value Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
- Quick-Maturity Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
- Part-Shade-Tolerant Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: CSU vegetable planting guide