[Market-farming] Arugula

Allan Balliett aballiett at frontiernet.net
Sun Apr 19 23:11:58 EDT 2009


Thanks for this report, Willie. I've inserted some questions below:


>On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 08:01:50AM -0400, Allan Balliett wrote:
>>  Friends -
>>
>>  I hate to admit it, but I just have never gotten the hang of 
>>growing arugula.
>
>I grow arugula pretty much year 'round.  Some times of year it does
>poorly, some well.  Right now, it's "well".

So what is your soil temp now? your daytime high? your low?

How are you fertilizing it?

I just blasted mine with very dilute copper in a twisted revolt 
against flea beetles. I didn't notice any leaf damage, other than 
shot holes, of course.

Thanks for this info!

-Allan


>  "Astro" variety.  Just
>jumps out of the ground; germinates better than just about anything
>else.  With good conditions, about 4-5 weeks from seeding to picking
>and then several weeks of picking.  When I have labor to pick it, I
>plant the next planting just before we start picking the older one. 
>Sometimes shot hole making insects cause trouble, probably flea
>beetles.  This year, for the first time, I got some harlequin bugs in
>it.  It is very sensitive to probably the spreader in sprays.  Even the
>lowest effective concentrations spot leaves.  One ounce of Mustang and
>one ounce of spreader in 15 gallons of water applied over an acre may
>cause spotting even if sprayed at sunset.  At times, we get apparent
>diseases that makes leaves too ugly to pick  In the winter, we get
>freeze burn but not kill.  We have many warm spells during the winter
>when arugula is pickable.  It survives, but does not thrive, in our
>summers.
>
>Central Texas.
>
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