What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Kevin. This is the

Epic gardening show. Today we're going to talk about Arugala and specifically we're

going to talk about types of Arugala and which ones you can grow in a warm climate and which ones that you may want to try growing in a colder climate.

And this question comes from Isaac who's wondering, he lives in a warmer climate and his Arugla bolts relatively quickly and he's wanting to know if there's anything out there that he can grow that's a little bit more heat tolerant.

Now to get into this we have to talk about the botanical classifications I guess you could say and so

Arugala the stuff that you know and call Arugala is Iruka Sitziva, edible annual plant, right?

It's also known by Rocket, salad, Rukala, Rukoli, Rugula, Rauquet,

there's a lot of different names for it, but the general name is Arugla. But here's the thing. A lot of people confuse it or mix it up with Diplotaxus tenuepholia which is wild rocket arrugala.

That's the common name for that one.

That's another plant in the Brassica family. And it's also

used very similar to normal Arrugala, but it is a different plant.

And so that is the key with Arugala.

You have Aruka Sativa, common Arugula,

or commonly cultivated Arugula,

and then you have Diplataxes tenuifolia, which is the wild

arugola. Now here's the interesting thing. Normal arugola is an annual. This is a perennial. Wild Arugala is a

perennial. So Wild Arugala is very good at self-seeding and so if you want to

dedicate an area of your garden to wild Arugala, then you can let some of them bolt and they're

going to self-seed very easily, let me tell you, very easily, the next year or the next life cycle. So leave it in the ground after they bolt,

you'll be smiling next season because they're going to be absolutely abundant and

here's something interesting that I did not know until recently is when

Arugla goes to flower you can actually harvest all the flowers as well if you want to.

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