Rocket Wild – bunch of freshly harvested leaves with roots on a wooden board in a kitchen

Rocket Wild

£1.70
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Rocket Wild – bunch of freshly harvested leaves with roots on a wooden board in a kitchen

Rocket Wild

Diplotaxis tenuifolia

A perennial rocket with a hotter, nuttier bite than the annual salad kind. It keeps producing usable leaves after flowering, so summer heat doesn't finish it off.

£1.70

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Dispatched from our Norfolk farm — Royal Mail, usually within one working day.

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At a glance

Height
20-30cm
Spread
15-20cm
Spacing
15cm
Position
Full sun. Drought-tolerant once established.
Seeds per packet
1000
Soil
Tolerates most soils including poor and gravelly.
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About this variety

The proper wild Mediterranean rocket, not the milder salad rocket that fills supermarket bags. A different species entirely, with narrower, deeply cut leaves and a far more serious peppery kick that builds slowly and finishes with a hint of bitterness.

This is rocket for people who want rocket to taste of something. It stands up to roast beef and parmesan without vanishing, turns a sliced tomato into something worth eating, and gives an Italian salad its proper character.

Being perennial changes how you grow it. One sowing crops through summer, survives the winter, and comes again the following spring from the same crown — two or three years from a single packet. Let it self-seed into gravel and path edges and it looks entirely at home there.