Arugula is an annual herbaceous plant of the Brassicaceae family, with a plant height of about ninety centimeters, erect stem growth, pinnately lobed leaves, and arugula blooms in the summer of each year, and fruits in the fall, and is mainly distributed in Heilongjiang, Liaoning and other places in China, and often reproduces by sowing seeds.

1, species introduction

Arugula, also known as stinking vegetable, rocket lettuce, Northeast stinking vegetable, is a cruciferous Brassica plant, can grow to a height of ninety centimeters, and the stem is upright growth, leaf pinnatifid, and arugula will enter the flowering period from May to June each year, the flowers are yellowish-white, and the fruit is yellowish-white. The flowers are yellowish-white and the fruit ripens in the fall and is brown.

2, origin and distribution

Arugula is mainly distributed in northern Europe, western Asia, northwest Africa and other regions, growing at an altitude of 1,400 meters to 3,100 meters in the wilderness, in the scope of our country, arugula is distributed in the north of Qinghai, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Hebei, Heilongjiang and other regions.

3, seed propagation

Arugula can be seed propagation. In the spring of each year, select the full grain, disease-free and injury-free arugula seeds, mix it well with fine soil, and then sowed in the loose breathable soil can be, after sowing to the seeds covered with a layer of thin soil, but also to the soil watering, so that the seeds germinate as soon as possible.

4, cultivation techniques

Cultivation of arugula in the process, it should be watered once a day, but the amount of watering should not be too much, to keep the soil moist can be, the growth period should provide urea, compound fertilizer, to improve the plant's growth rate, but also every January for the removal of weeds for the arugula, to avoid breeding bacteria.