Sorrel Blood Veined

Sorrel Blood Veined

1 packet (300 seeds) @ $2.45

Catalog Code: 77

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Sorrel Blood Veined

Vegetable

  • Position: Sun or part shade
  • Soil: Well drained
  • Germination: Easy
  • Aftercare: Easy
  • Ideal for: Containers

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.
Sowing depth:13mm (½in) deep in drills 30cm (12in) apart.

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.