Growing arugula is good for your health

Arugula – a salad plant from the cabbage family, which has a sharp and rich taste, will add an unusual piquancy to any salad, pizza, pasta, or baked goods. Arugula is rich in beneficial vitamins, micro- and macroelements.

The plant helps:

- improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, metabolism, immune system;

- strengthen the walls of blood vessels, the nervous system;

- reduce salt deposits;

- reduce ulcerative manifestations in the stomach;

- lower cholesterol and increase hemoglobin.

Also arugula has tonic, antibacterial, diuretic and antioxidant effects. Arugula juice is suitable for treating calluses, skin ulcers, and removing freckles.

Therefore, growing arugula in your garden will only bring benefits, Moreover, the plant is very unpretentious and does not require any care at all, and you can even get two harvests of arugula over the summer.

Growing arugula carried out by sowing seeds into open ground to a depth of no more than one and a half centimeters. The seeds germinate already on the third day after sowing and grow quickly. Any soil is suitable for salad, but it must be well moistened and nutritious. Young leaves are used in salads, which are picked in the third week after germination., the old leaves are no longer so soft and have a more pronounced bitter taste.

After the young leaves are collected, the plant can be removed from the ground, but if seeding material is needed, the plant is left in the ground; it will produce pods containing seeds. Having collected the seeds, you can sow them again and get a second harvest. After the second harvest, you can also collect the seeds and get a harvest at home on the windowsill in the spring.