Organic Rucola Seeds
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Organic Rucola Sprouts
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Organic Rucola Sprouts
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Organic Rucola Seeds for Sprouts and Microgreens

Organic Rucola seeds can be cultivated to both sprouts and microgreens in your kitchen all year.

NAMES

Rucola / Rugula belong to the bothanical family of Brassicaceae. The Latin name for this beautiful variety is Eruca vesicaria sativa.

TASTE

Your Rucola plants are quite spicy and have a strong taste of Arugula / Rucola / Rocket salad. This makes it great in dips or as spicy topping.

LOOKS

Rucola are just 15 cm long as sprouts from root tip to leaf top. As microgreens they are 20 cm long. They are green and white.

NUTRIENTS

Rucola / Arugula microgreens and sprouts contain the nutrients: A, B3, C, E, K and Potassium, Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus.

EDIBLE PARTS

As Rucola is mucilaginous and thus need to be cultivated on cotton or hemp mats, you can only eat the stems and leaves of the plants.

TIME

Rucola sprouts take 6 days from dry seed to edible sprout. As microgreens they take 12 days from seed to mature microgreens.

Tips for Organic Rucola Sprouts and Microgreens

 

COTTON OR HEMP MAT

Rucola or Arugula need to grow on cotton woll or hemp mats as these seeds are mucilaginous – they form gel when wet.

Whether you choose cotton or hemp is not important.

However, it is important, that you choose 100% organic quality. This way your plants do not absorb unwanted substances, but can grow well and healthy for your benefit.

CHOOSE SPROUTING SEEDS

You can often buy Rucola – Arugula – Garden rocked seeds for garden cultivation.

But garden seeds are often sprayed with anti-fungi to help them withstand the natural fungi and bacteria in soil.

However, anti-fungi will give you a stomach ache, so always only buy certified sprouting seeds for your sprouts and microgreens cultivation.

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Organic Rucola Seeds for Microgreens

Organic Rucola seeds for Microgreens is an easy plant, that you will have much joy of growing in your kitchen. The seeds have the Latin name of Eruca vesicaria sativa. Rucola is also called Arugula, Rugula and Roquette.

Vitamins and minerals in Rucola

Your home-grown Organic Rucola Microgreens contain the vitamins: A, B3, C, E, K and the minerals Potassium, Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus.

Gelling seeds

Rucola – Arugula – need to grow on cotton woll or hemp mats as these seeds are mucilaginous. That means they form gel when the seeds get wet. Because of theis the seeds will not thrive in a sprouter like a SproutJar or a SproutPearl.
Whether you choose to grow the plants on cotton woll or hemp is less important. However, it is important, that you choose 100% organic quality. This way your plants do not absorb unwanted substances from the substrate, but will grow well and healthy for your benefit.

Taste and use in food

You will notice that your Rucola microgreens get a milder taste the longer they grow. Therefore the sprouts are milder than the microgreens. If you give the microgreens light too, the taste become more round.
You may use the Rucola in any dish or dip, where you would other wise use the salad. That would be in salad, sandwiches, wraps and dips. Some use them in vegetable smoothies too.

Cultivation time of organic Rucola seeds for Microgreens

You can grow your organic Rucola seeds into either sprouts or microgreens. If your kitchen temperature is 18-23 ° C / 64-73 ° F, your Rucola sprouts should be ready for harvest after 6 days of cultivation. At the same temperature, they should have grown to mature microgreens after a total of 12 days.

Cultivation device for Rucola microgreens

As Rucola is a gelling – mucilaginous – seed, they need to grow on a special substrate. Because of this a Hemp mat or Organic Cotton Woll is needed under the seeds. The substrate is needed to grow both Rucola sprouts and microgreens. See Hemp mat.

Microgreens need light and fertilizer

If you grow Rucola Microgreens, then the plants need artificial light and extra fertilizer from day 7 of the cultivation. Under MICRO KIT you can find descriptions about the right amount of light and fertilizer for Microgreens when you use each product. Visit Micro Kit.

I have also written different blog articles about microgreens. Those may interest you and give you tips for succes.
Visit the BLOG.

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