Runaway Salad Arugula is a fast-growing, open-pollinated variety ready to harvest in just 21 days. Its deeply lobed leaves develop into tender greens perfect for cutting at 3, 6 inches, then regrowing for multiple harvests from the same plant. This bush-form arugula thrives in cool-season gardens and can be grown continuously throughout the season, making it especially valuable for succession planting or winter production in greenhouses and high tunnels.
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At 21 days to harvest, Runaway Salad lives up to its name, delivering tender, deeply lobed leaves faster than most arugula varieties. The real magic happens after your first cut: slice just an inch above the soil line and the plant regrows, offering 5, 14 days of additional harvests from the same planting. Its compact bush habit and reliable open-pollinated genetics make it a dependable choice for gardeners who want quick salad greens without the complexity of hybrids.
Runaway Salad Arugula is harvested young for fresh salads, where its tender leaves and characteristic peppery bite shine in mixed greens or as a standalone salad green. The leaves can be cut when they reach 3, 6 inches and used fresh, or left to mature slightly for deeper flavor. Even after plants flower, the leaves remain edible, though they develop a sharper taste, and the flowers themselves are also edible.
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Direct sow Runaway Salad Arugula seeds outdoors in fertile, well-drained soil with a pH of 6.0, 6.8 in full sun to part shade. Sow in spring as soon as soil can be worked, or in late summer for fall and winter harvests.
Harvest Runaway Salad Arugula when leaves reach 3, 6 inches in size, which occurs approximately 21 days after sowing. Use a knife to cut about an inch above the soil line to allow for clean regrowth from the basal plate. The plant will regrow and be ready for a second harvest in 5, 14 days, depending on growing conditions. You can continue harvesting until the plant flowers; even after flowering, the leaves remain edible, though they develop a sharper taste. The flowers themselves are also edible.
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