
Besides their distinctive peppery flavor and diluted mustard family ties, these plants share an easy cultivation habit. They can be started from seeds or plants. Harvesting the arugula and watercress repeatedly will stave off flowering, which can make the leaves too strong tasting. Nasturtiums and arugula are much less thirsty than watercress. Those of us in water-challenged areas with no burbling stream nearby should consider planting watercress in well-irrigated containers.
I sowed wild arugula from Seeds of Change more than ten years ago and still have clumps of it that return every year. How's that for ROI? Unfortunately some are now at the edge of the street (how? I don’t know) at perfect dog height, which feels a bit dodgy when gathering it for dinner.
Most use arugula (or rocket, roquette, rucola) in salads. It’s also great in risotto, soup, pasta, chopped on top of pizza and as a pesto.


Fantasy aside, for ornamental value, nasturtiums easily win the family beauty pagent. The lily pad leaves bead up water, begging to be photographed, and the flowers range from creamsicle to fanta to mahogany. They are as photogenic in your salad as they are in your garden.
The flowers and leaves can beautify cheese plates or desserts. You can pickle the flower buds to use as you would capers. If you are making pasta from scratch, roll a few petals into your fettuccine for a pretty confetti effect. Or how about chopping up some in cream cheese for a lovely sandwich spread or using the leaves for dolmas?
The last cousin here, watercress, to me conjures up scenes of afternoon tea from a PG Wodehouse novel: "I say, Jeeves, what about another of those watercress sandwiches? They are rather spot on, eh?"
It is one of the main veggies in V-8, in case you think you’ve never had it.
Jeff Cox has done such a great job in writing about watercress that I defer to him in his lovely article, All About Watercress – complete with Watercress, Beet, and Orange Salad Recipe. This is a great recipe which is interchangeable with arugula, by the way.
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