Esmée
Variety
Esmée
Approved Data
created by Nina H. at 22.12.2021
Cultivation Break
4 Years
Season Overview
Sowing
Harvest
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Description
Good cress-like flavor. For pizza and pesto. Mineral source. Very vigorous. Conditionally frost hardy and self-seeding.
Non hybrid
Frostproof
Growing tips
Optimum germination temperature 15-18 °C; 7-14 days; annual plant. Prefers very sunny, dry locations and is extremely heat tolerant. Arugula grows very abundantly when direct sown In fall or early spring. Young leaves can be picked as they go, tastes best before flowering.
Details
Plant distance
25 cm
Row spacing
25 cm
Seeding depth
1 cm
Companion Plants
Basil
Bean (Dwarf bean)
Bean (Runner bean)
Beetroot
Blueberry
Borage
Carrots
Chard
Chervil
Chickpea
Chives
Comfrey
Common marigold
Coriander / Cilantro
Currant
Dill
Garlic
Garlic chives
Gooseberry
Lavender
Leeks
Lettuce (Common chicory)
Lettuce (Endive / Escarole / Erisée)
Lettuce (Lamb's lettuce)
Lettuce (Lettuce)
Lettuce (Puntarelle / Cicoria di catalogna / Cicoria asparago)
Lettuce (Radicchio / Italian chicory)
Lettuce (Sugar loaf)
Mint
Onion
Onion (Spring onion)
Parsley
Pea
Raspberry
Root parsley
Rutabaga / Swedish turnip
Savory
Soybean
Spinach (Summer)
Spinach (Winter)
Strawberry
Turnip-rooted chervil
Antagonistic Plants
Abyssinian cabbage / Ethiopian mustard
Asparagus
Aubergine / Eggplant
Blackberry / Brambles
Broccoli raab / Stem cabbage / Cima di rapa
Brussels sprouts
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage (Cabbage)
Cabbage (Pointed cabbage)
Cabbage (red cabbage)
Cabbage (Savoy cabbage)
Cauliflower
Celery (Leaf celery / Chinese celery)
Chili
Chinese kale - Kai-lan / Chinese broccoli
Collard greens
Collard greens (Kale)
Collard greens (Tuscan kale / Dinosaur kale / Palm tree kale)
Coneflower (Echinacea)
Corn / Maize
Courgette / Zucchini
Cress
Cucumber (Caigua)
Elderberry
Funk
Garden squash - Patisson / UFO squash
Hair cucumbers / snake gourds
Hazelnut
Horseradish
Jerusalem artichoke / Topinambur
Kohlrabi / German turnip / Turnip cabbage
Larkspur
Lovage
Melon (Sugar melon)
Melon (Watermelon)
Mizuna / Japanese mustard greens
Mustard
Napa cabbage / Chinese cabbage
Nightshades (Other)
Oil radish / Fodder radish
Ornamental pumpkin
Pak Choi
Pepper / Paprika
Potato
Pumpkin / Squash
Radish
Radishes
Rapeseed
Rapeseed - Sheer cabbage / Siberian cabbage
Rapini / Broccoli rabe
Rhubarb
Rudbeckia (Coneflower / Black-eyed-susans)
Sage
Sea coal
Sweet potato
Tomato (Bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail Stake Tomato)
Tomato (Stake tomato)
Turnip
Turnip greens - Choy Sum / Chinese flowering cabbage
Turnip greens - Mizuna
Turnip greens - Tatsoi
Turnips - Oilseed turnips
Turnips - Wild turnips
Vegetable cabbage - Forage cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - Ribbed cabbage / Portuguese cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - wild cabbage / ancient cabbage
Watercress
Yalta tomatoes
Diseases
Root Rot
Club root of cabbage
Downy mildew
Angular leaf spot of cucumber
Powdery mildews
Pests
Cutworms
Land snails
Leaf-miner flies
Cabbage white
Cabbage fly
Cabbage heart midge
Aphids
Flea beetles
