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Rucola - Ruca

Rucola - Ruca

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Rucola Salad Plant: Enhance your salad greens collection with Rucola, a rapidly growing salad plant known for its notably short growing cycle, similar to that of radishes. This variety is exceptionally versatile, thriving both outdoors and under glass, making it an excellent choice for year-round cultivation. Rucola is undemanding in terms of care, perfect for both early and late planting schedules.

Key Features:

  • Quick Growth: Maturing quickly like radish, Ruca is ideal for continuous planting and harvesting.
  • Versatility: Suitable for outdoor gardens or greenhouse cultivation, adapting easily to various growing environments.
  • Taste Profile: Offers a milder flavor compared to wild rocket, making it especially good for mixed salads.

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Sowing, Transplanting and Harvesting Guide

  • Typical characteristics of the variety

  • Species-specific cultivation instructions

    Direct sowing: greenhouse: end of January till March and end of August till mid of September outdoors: March till end of August

    Planting distance: direct sowing 25-30 x 1-2 cm planting ca. 25 x 15 cm

    Amount of seed needed: ca. 75 g/a; ca. 80 seeds per running metre

    Seed germination temperature: 15-20 °C

    Raise in seed bed: for open ground: beginning of February till beginning of September for planting out from beginning of March till end of September for greenhouse: from end of December for planting out from end of January for overwintering: till mid of September for planting out till beginning of October

    Sowing depth: ca. 1 cm

  • Origin

    Breeder: b-d EHZ

    Multiplier: Maatschap Nieuw Bonaventura / Mieke, Leen-Jan und Niels Reedijk, Suet GmbH

    Certifications: Demeter