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Long and narrow leaves, a Brit told me that the leaves were edible and often used in soups and salads. Sorrel grown in a greenhouse will give you leaves to harvest earlier in the year, but the plants will bolt much sooner in the summer. Once your sorrel plants are established, they won’t need much in terms of care, especially if you’re regularly harvesting them. The most effective period for application is in spring when the oxalis is growing actively and vigorously.

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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. However, applying a high-nitrogen fertiliser, such as chicken manure pellets, twice a year can help to encourage more leafy growth.There are so many ways to use this herb outside of a garnish or a punchy addition to a spring salad, with its health benefits considered too, getting to know Sorrel in all of its forms and varieties is a must for the avid and hungry forager. Sorrel Rumex acetosaYoung sorrel leaves can be harvested as a cut and come again salad crop from late spring to autumn. Its arrow-shaped leaves were a familiar sight in Medieval vegetable gardens across Europe until the 1700s, and it has since become a common wild herb in North America where it was introduced as a salad green. They will send up tall flower spikes in summer, which should be removed if you want to keep picking the leaves.

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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. Oxalis means ‘sour’ and the lemony leaves and stems are edible (and delicious) and are a very trendy garnish to many a chef’s dishes. Over-crowding will lead to stunted growth and the development of diseases, so pay attention to spacing. Rumex scutatus (pictured) – also known as buckler-leaved or French sorrel, this is a low-growing, creeping variety.

It is an upright plant that grows up to 60 cm in height and later in the season its leaves are sometimes tinged with red. Sarah’s role as chief editor at DIY Garden is about more than just making sure we’re literally dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s (although she’s a stickler for detail, so it’s certainly about that too! Outside of the consumption or medical uses of Sorrel, the juice or sap of Common Sorrel has previously been used to remove the stains from linen. Sorrel leaves taste best when they’re young, so try harvesting them when they’re about 10-12 cm in height.

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I have no idea how we learned as kids what was safe to eat and what wasn’t but I guess is was just osmosis and I don’t remember anyone dying.We have written a lot about this wonderful wild herb and many recipes including the delicious St George Mushrooms with Wild Sorrel on toast. It’s great for planting in a gap in the veggie garden after early potatoes, broad beans or garlic have been lifted. Sowing extra gives you insurance in case one doesn’t germinate, but the extra seedling will need to be thinned out after it’s about a week old.