I started out with the variety ‘Astro’. It produces flowers the same year. Makes it easy to save seed.
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I prefer annual arugula if eating a lot in salads (it tastes fairly mild to me unless using bolted leaves) and perennial arugula as a seasoning (this one is more peppery and I would only eat a few leaves at a time). I like kale raw but find red greens too bitter to give you an idea of my taste buds but I don’t think either arugula is super strong tasting.
I can confirm that the perennial kind is one of the weediest plants around for me and self seeds too well (not many things reliably self seed here). The regular kind is better behaved.
Well, I have lots of flea beetles and my perrenial arugala is unstoppable. It’s hard for me to believe we are speaking of the same speices given your relative close proximinty to my S. NY state. Flea beetles completely arrest my egg plants if I don’t do something about them… at least put ashes on the leaves.
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The annual arugula was hit too but the plants were able to set seed. This was a spring sowing in 2024 I’m talking about. That was the only time flea beetles caused a lot of damage. I was able to grow perennial arugula in containers with part shade the year before but in ground it faltered. Very weird. I grew a few varieties of each so it’s not like I had one susceptible variety.
