PREMIER SEEDS DIRECT - Sorrel - RUMEX ACETOSA - 3000 Finest Seeds

Product Information

Mulches are usually applied around plants to help suppress weeds while maintaining consistent moisture levels. Prepare your growing area, making sure that it’s weed-free and that the soil on the surface is light and fine Its tendency to appear as one of the first plants in spring meant it was once a highly valued edible green.

How to Grow Sorrel | BBC Gardeners World Magazine

If you’re planning on using your sorrel as a herb, then one or two plants is all that your garden needs. However, if you want to make the most of its zesty zing and use it throughout the spring and summer as a main salad ingredient and as a spinach replacement, aim to grow three to four sorrel plants per person. Growing Requirements for Sorrel Sorrel Red Veined Herb has very attractive foliage with leaves that are light green with deep red veining - it looks as good in the garden as on a plate with mixed salad leaves. It does have a strong flavour so best use just a couple of leaves in a salad. Forking out is best done in the spring when the tiny developing bulbils are firmly attached to the parent plant and before Oxalis latifolia hasproduced seeds. Later in the season they are easily detached, causing the weed to be spread further around the garden Sorrel Red Veined is an easy to grow perennial herb that has a distinctive tangy lemony taste that adds flavour to a salad, makes an excellent soup or sauce for fish. Try to give your plants between 2-3cm of water a week. Rainfall will often provide this, but, if you’re going through a dry spell, manual watering will be needed. Feeding SorrelOnce your sorrel plants are established, they won’t need much in terms of care, especially if you’re regularly harvesting them. However, if you want your plants to truly thrive, here’s what you need to do: Watering Sorrel Once your seeds germinate, thin them out so that there is 30cm between each plant. Although sorrel doesn’t grow too tall, it has a spread of about 60cm. Over-crowding will lead to stunted growth and the development of diseases, so pay attention to spacing. Sorrel leaves taste best when they’re young, so try harvesting them when they’re about 10-12 cm in height. When it comes to sorrel, all of that still applies, but a mulch has the added benefit of keeping the leaves clean. The majority of your harvest will consist of young leaves, which grow quite low to the ground. These can end up damaged or splattered with dirt during heavy rains, both of which a mulch prevents. Pinching Off Sorrel Flowers

Sorrel – A Foraging Guide to Its Food, Medicine and Other Uses Sorrel – A Foraging Guide to Its Food, Medicine and Other Uses

If you plan on growing your sorrel as an annual, then direct and successional sowing is the least labour-intensive method of ensuring a regular harvest. How to Plant Sorrel OutsideFirst, consider whether control can be achieved using non-chemical means such as digging out or suppressing with mulch. Alternatively, grow a few plants outdoors and then have a couple of extras in your greenhouse for the longest harvesting period. How to Care for Sorrel Sorrel is known to contain quite high levels of oxalic acid. The estimated maximum intake of sorrel is 50 g fresh weight a day.