Salad Rocket, Victoria

The classic salad rocket also known as Oriental Brassica Salad, with a rounded leaf blade and attractive dark green colour. Very vigorous and fast growing.
Oriental brassicas are excellent from late summer onwards right through the winter if grown under protection.

Sowing:
Salad Rocket ‘Victoria’ – grows best in the cooler parts of the year. As the days get longer the plants quickly run to seed.
Seeds can be sown directly in early spring as soon as the soil can be worked or even in late summer or early autumn. However, the plants are quite hardy and can cope with a few degrees of frost. Because plants are quite short-lived, sow in succession of about two to three weeks.

Sow small amounts every 3 weeks from late June until late September. Seeds can be sown directly into the ground or into modular trays (5 seeds per cell) and planted out 4 weeks after sowing.

Spacing:
Between rows: 25 cm. Between plants in the row: 25 cm (5 seedlings per station)

Harvesting:

You can either harvest individual leaves as they are needed or use the cut-and-come-again method: cut the whole plant at about 5cm height from the soil level and the leaves will re-grow within the next two to three weeks. The leaves get bitter when the plant starts to bolt.