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  • From: "Brigette Leach" <afhg AT ctsmail.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Subject: Arugula
  • Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:16:38 -0400

Pete,
 
Nothing scientific here, but our experience in our hydroponic greenhouse, growing mixed salad greens, is that the arugula seems to be the first to get aphids. If it bolts in the greenhouse it becomes bitter and inedible.
 
Thanks for sharing.
 
Brigette Leach
Avalon Farms Homegrown
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 9:23 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] Subject: Arugula



We started planting rocket arugula last year, it started pretty meagerly and we didn't think much of it till late summer when we declared it a weed. It then continued to grow and spread and had an interesting effect on part of the garden - it appeared to act as a barrier against aphids.  I don't know if anyone else has had this experience, but we noticed that on the northern side of the garden where it was creating a wall, the broccoli didn't seem to have a single aphid (neither did the arugula), but the southern end (arugula free) there were some aphids. Same was true of snails. It also seemed that flowering didn't change the taste much , if anything it seemed to make it nuttier, but did lead to smaller leaves.

Of course its anecdotal but I'm thinking of adding it as a border patrol plant to see what happens.






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