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

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If you’re planning on using your sorrel as a herb, then one or two plants is all that your garden needs. Common Sorrel seeds are usually easy to germinate and the seedlings, which are quick to develop, can be pricked out and grown on, for planting out later in the year. Not only is sorrel such a tasty yet unique ingredient, but it’s also packed with high amounts of vitamins A and C, along with an impressive list of other nutrients.

Sorrel, Common Sorrel and types of Edible UK Sorrels Wild Sorrel, Common Sorrel and types of Edible UK Sorrels

Melt the butter in a large pan and gently fry the onion, potato, parsley stalks and fennel seeds for 5 minutes until the onion and potato is softened. It’s great for planting in a gap in the veggie garden after early potatoes, broad beans or garlic have been lifted. As well as cultivated varieties including French Sorrel, Silver Shield, Broad leaved and Red Veined 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. Mulches are usually applied around plants to help suppress weeds while maintaining consistent moisture levels.They will send up tall flower spikes in summer, which should be removed if you want to keep picking the leaves. As we have already discussed, Sorrel in all its forms has been used to quench thirst and as a digestive. All three are easy to grow, either from seed or young plants, and are perennials so should last several years. It is also said that the leaves act as a febrifuge, which means that they are good at relieving fever. Probably the most attractive variety of Sorrel, this one is as delicious as the others, but is also quite beautiful.

COMMON SORREL seeds (rumex acetosa) from Wildflowers UK.

Common Sorrel -rumex acetosa– grows best in damp grassland and is well suited to heavy clay soils on sites with sun or semi-shade. Despite originating from warm regions such as South America and southern Africa, many oxalis species are hardy enough to survive outdoors in the UK. The recommended sowing rate is 1 gram per square metre, and the number of Common Sorrel seeds per gram is approx. Then, dig holes that are large enough to accommodate each sorrel plant, along with the soil that it’s currently growing in. Used with care, glyphosate is safe to use around the base of non-suckering woody plants, as long as the bark is woody, brown and mature.The leaves can be long and arrow shaped or when young, shorter and more rounded but at the base of the leaf it always has pointed ‘tails’ which is a key identifying feature of this plant. Rainfall will often provide this, but, if you’re going through a dry spell, manual watering will be needed.