How fast/big should rocket grow?

cat4772

I planted a row of seeds in my garden and although some have flowering stems, the rest are just perfect. I tend to take a few leaves of each plant and so far managing a meal a week from it! if it's in a plantpot indoors, it might need repotting.

Juliepink26

I planted some seeds last month and now they have grown so tall so quickly and have flowers but the leaves are so small, should i remove the flower heads?

Fidget21

I'm sorry I think they might be too far gone.....

Rocket grows really quickly and you need to keep it well watered and harvest before it flowers. Once it has flowered it tends to be a bit tough.

Your best bet might be to start again, but this time maybe try a smaller crop that you can keep on top of. Then you can sow every few weeks and have ongoing rocket crops, you can do this in pots, seed trays or growbags.

I did the same thing last year, sowed a whole row of rocket and couldn't eat it fast enough:o , I tried successional sowing with my salad crops and didn't leave enough time between the sowings and ended up with 2 pots full of salad leaves....you live and learn;)

Juliepink26

Thank you... so the leaves wont get any bigger then? they are so tiny!! I planted loads of them... :rolleyes: I havn't even ate one yet as they are so small....oh well..

arkonite_babe

We have a thread similar to this already, I'll add your query to it so all the replies are together. Posts are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to catch up

teedy23

great I wanted to know all this too. Thank you.