Sorrel Blood Veined
Vegetable
- Position: Sun or part shade
- Soil: Well drained
- Germination: Easy
- Aftercare: Easy
Description
New, colourful salad leaf innovation to add a sharp but pleasant taste and texture to mixed salads, when eaten young. Also makes an attractive 'dot' plant in the flower border. Ideal used in soups and sauces. Hardy Perennial but grown as an Annual. Flavour guide: Sharp but pleasant.
Sowing Instructions
| Sowing time: | for salad leaves sow March-May outdoors. |
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| Sowing depth: | 13mm (½in) deep in drills 30cm (12in) apart. |
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Sow thinly in soil that has been raked to a fine tilth.
Growing Instructions
Thin plants to 7.5cm (3in) apart once big enough to handle. Thin once more allowing up to 25cm (10in) spacing for full size plants.
Aftercare Instructions
Harvest young leaves as required, picking only a few from each plant.
Kitchen Notes
Adds zest to lettuce, corn salad and purslane in a mixed salad.
