Arugula Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Eruca vesicaria

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Sow / plantHarvest

Guides

How to Sow Arugula: Depth, Spacing and Soil Temperature
Arugula Care: Watering, Feeding and Keeping the Leaves Mild
Cut-and-Come-Again Arugula: How to Pick for Repeat Harvests
Why Arugula Bolts So Fast and How to Delay It
Arugula Growing Calendar: Successions from Early Spring to Frost
Arugula Pests and Diseases: Flea Beetle Shot Holes, Slugs and Mildew

Pests and diseases (3)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Anthracnose

Disease

Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, slightly sunken in the center. In wet weather salmon-pink slimy spore masses ooze out on the lesions.

Downy Mildew

Disease

Pale yellow to yellow-brown angular lesions form on the upper leaf surface with a gray-purple mold in the matching spot underneath. Lesions merge, the leaves die back and the plant declines early.

Fusarium Wilt and Damping-off

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.