Rocket varieties: overview of wild rocket and rocket salad varieties

Arugula varieties: An overview of new and tried-and-tested varieties of wild rocket and salad rocket. We show the best and highest-yielding varieties.

The numerous arugula-Varieties differ mainly in appearance, size, origin and harvest time. When buying seeds, you should pay attention to the respective properties. There are earlier and later varieties. There are also so-called sprout Varieties that overwinter outdoors. These form numerous smaller flowers in spring, a wonderful spring vegetable!

Below we have put together a few well-known and proven varieties that thrive well in our latitudes. Choosing the right variety lies between wild rocket and salad rocket:

Wild Rocket:

• Dragon's tongue: Breeding from England, which has proven to be very robust with regard to various growing conditions; around the leaf veins, the leaf green turns reddish in places; very good and spicy aroma.
• Venice: Fast-growing selection of wild rocket with a late flowering period. This allows for a long harvest and high yields; typically nutty and quite spicy taste.
• Naples: selection of wild rocket; grows faster than the wild form and produces broader leaves (may also be a hybrid with rocket rocket); high yield.

salad rocket:

• Speedy: As the name suggests, a fast-growing hybrid of wild rocket and salad rocket; spicy and piquant aroma; Suitable for outdoor cultivation as well as on the windowsill.
• coltivate: Fast-growing, robust and broad-leaved variety of rocket salad; popular in Italy because of its very good aroma.
• pronto: Modern cultivated form of rocket rocket with very fast growth; good taste.
• buzzy: A variety mostly used to make arugula sprouts.
• Bologna: This variety is a hybrid of wild and salad rocket; the variety is fast-growing and high-yielding; balanced, good aroma.
• wild fire: New variety with broad, light green leaves; In terms of taste, Wildfire is said to be quite spicy and slightly reminiscent of Japanese wasabi.
• Sylvetta: Fast-growing variety with fine leaves and an early flowering time; nice, slightly nutty aroma.

Notice: Although the "Agano" variety is often sold as a red-leaved variant of wild rocket, it belongs to the brown mustard (Brassicajuncea).

Have you decided on a rocket variety? Then it is now time for sowing. How one Properly growing arugula, you will learn in this article.

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