Blog — Sorrel

Known as the ‘weeds of cultivation’, arable or garden weeds, some people spend a lot of time and effort eradicating edible weeds to replace them with vegetables. Nowhere is the irony more amusing than in growing salads! The following ten plants will all invite themselves onto your patch of soil and can be harvested for food instead of just weeded out and discarded. 1. Chickweed Stellaria media. It’s seems that wherever you’ve bared the soil, chickweed will be in like a shot to cover it up again. It spreads over the surface of the soil putting down very fine roots as...

Common sorrel (Rumex acetosa) is always to be found. It lurks in clumps by the grasses in pasture and is often found around aging dock stalks as if they offer it special protection or perhaps a mineral boost. Dock has a long taproot which, like dandelion, can bring up minerals from deep underground. Sorrel tastes like green apple skin and lemon. Tart, fresh, tasty. Wild Sorrel Leaves   Traditionally, sorrel sauce was made to accompany fish. I also use it with roast lamb instead of mint sauce on the rare occasion that I cook it. Two summers ago, I had...