Rugula - growing and leaving, pest fighting

A useful and tastyrugula can be grown at home. And how to do this - find out in the article.

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A salad in leaves called arugula has recently been popular not only among vegetarians and lovers of healthy diet, but also among those who prefer natural vitamins all year round. Surely you will be interested in how you can grow this useful plant at home - which we are going to talk about in this article.

Hand -up Growing: Important Tips

Of course, now there are practically no problems with buying fresh greenery in supermarkets, but the best option is to grow arugula on your own at home. Thus, each time, making a fresh salad for yourself and loved ones, you will be full of pride that the vitamins received by your family are grown by your caring hands, without any harmful additives.

Brief information about the landing of arugula And care for her:

We sow the seeds in open soil in April; For seedlings, the ideal period is the beginning of April (minimum temperature: +17-20 ° C). The distance between the seedlings should be at least 30 cm, so you get the most delicious and juicy greens when harvesting.
Lighting: In the morning - multiple light, after lunch - provide a light shadow.
Priming: fertile, not too dry, low or neutral.
Water arugula It is necessary regularly so that the land on the site is constantly slightly moistened. On arid hot days - water every day (good watering is a guarantee that arugula will grow juicy and without bitterness).
The culture does not need fertilizers, since it is inclined to quickly absorb unnecessary substances; It is enough to periodically shake the soil with humus and old peat.
Exists two ways to grow arugula: from the seeds we get seedlings and plant (in regions with late spring); We sow directly into the soil (for regions with soft climate).
The best of early ripening varieties of arugula - poker. You can make the first salad of a fresh manol 21 day after landing.
Rococo variety Gives suitable leaflets after 30 days, rocket, Sicily, Corsica-35-38 days after landing.
Arugula can be sown several times a year, for example, a salad planted in early spring will give young sprouts full of valuable vitamins.
Growing arugula In early July or even in August, it will help to diversify your diet with green salads.
In order to provide yourself with the beneficial greenery on summer-autumn period, plant arugula With an interval of 15 days, so you will not feel its lack for the body at all.

Rugula: growing in a greenhouse

This method growing arugula We carry out in a pot with the soil in which the salad will grow in the future, while so that the soil is as suitable as possible should be disinfected by calcining in an oven or flooding with boiling water.
It is worth noting that it is quite possible to prepare a mixture of soil with your own hands: for this, take humus, sand and sod In the proportion 2: 1: 2.
The soil purchased in a specialized store (choose the one suitable for vegetable seedlings) is also suitable.
Handy seeds Dear ahead of time for 2-3 hours in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Then we fill the container for future seedlings (depth-at least 10 cm) with a sterilized, carefully moistened mixture of the soil, lay out on its flat surface of the burrum seed (the recommended distance between them is 1.5-2 cm), fill up with a sand (about 1 cm layer) and set our The impromptu flowerpot in the illuminated place without covering.
The first sprouts can be seen after 3-5 days.

Caring for seedlings of arugula in a greenhouse suggests:

Timely and sufficient watering.
Loosing the soil.

When a pair of distinguishable leaves appears, they should be separated by two and planted in pots of peat or transplanted into the container more spacious, observing the interval in 10-15 cm from each other and 25-30 cm - Between the rows. A similar “chip” during planting will allow you to grow arugula with fragrant and piquant with leaves with leaves.

Rugula: growing on a windowsill at home

Completely simple Growing arugula on the windowsill in any season. The soil for seeding of seeds is taken the same, its disinfection is carried out.
In the container for sowing, holes are made for the outflow of excess water, it is filled with expanded clay (2-3 cm).
Pebbles or broken brick is also suitable, then a moistened mixture of soil (the surface is redone) is filled up, after which the seeds are laid out in the upper soil layer, as when sowing for seedlings.
4 days after the planting of the seeds, you can see the appearance of small seedlings. When they grow up, put them one or two in separate pots (the distance between the seedlings is about 20 cm).

Do not allow flowering on your "garden" (inflorescences must be cut off)-such arugula is not suitable for food because of leaflets acquiring rigidity.

Growing arugula in open ground

Growing arugula in the garden Perhaps in April, at an air temperature of 10 ° C. The plant is not to the taste of too bright sun, but it should not be planted in the shadow.
The perfect area for arugula It should be lit in the morning by the sun, and after lunch it is covered with a shadow. It is best to plant this type of greenery where legumes, pumpkin, tomatoes, carrots and potatoes grew earlier.
But the precedingrugated all subspecies of cabbage, as well as horseradish, radish, turnip, etc. - They will allow you to collect the desired crop of this plant only after 3 years.
Seedlings grown in peat pots, plant seedlings in the soil directly in them, grew up in any container (box, container, plastic glass), they get together with the lump of the Earth.
We plant seedlings according to the scheme: 10x30 cm, in moistened holes, which, having covered with earth, water again.
Arugula can withstand frosts up to -7 ° C, however, with stronger frosts, it is recommended to protect seedlings with a film or plastic bottles (cover overnight), removing the “coating” in the morning.

It is regularly carried out:

Moisturizing the soil - with the help of irrigation or prolonged watering of the beds.
Weeding - to remove weeds and outgrown leaves (more than 10 cm high).
Loosening soil between greens and rows.
Subsy If the greens grow too thickly (such a procedure will improve its taste).
Top dressing - Not particularly necessary, sometimes you can add nitrogen fertilizers.

How to deal with pests of arugula?

Arugula - a type of salad, Persistent to harming insects (thanks to the abundant amount of volatile oils in the plant) or diseases.
Arugula is prone to damaging with fungal pathogens: peronosporosis, fusariosis. These diseases are easy to avoid - it is enough to examine the seedlings from time to time.
As soon as the leaves of the plant are covered with brown spots, you can be sure that peronosporosis impressed therugula; If the leaves have acquired a yellow tint with black or brown veins - the plant is painful in fusariosis.
You can’t even try to cure grown up plants at this stage, better grow arugula In the other area, having carried out thorough preparation of soil. You can fight pests and diseases by regular sowing and destruction of weeds.

Thus, you can easily acquire a mini-ogro-rod from fresh greenery on your windowsill or in front of the house, in the country or even in the city. Not only is it useful to eat this plant, it is also nice to look at it, especially long winter evenings, when bright green leaves will delight your eye in your kitchen daily, will become delicious additions to fresh salads and a pleasant decoration of festive dishes.