Flashy sorrel for salads.
Bright-green leaves with contrasting dark maroon stems and veins add color and taste to salad mix. Same sharp, tangy flavor as regular sorrel. Best variety for indoor production. Best when harvested young for salad mix as large leaves are tough. Has great ornamental use at full size. Avg. 42,900 seeds/oz. Packet: 100 seeds.
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Rumex spp.
CULTURE: Sorrel is a hardy perennial that can also be grown as an annual. Start indoors in cell-type containers sowing 2-3 seeds/cell covering 1/4″.
DIRECT SEEDING: Sow in fertile soil in midspring, seeds 1″ apart, 1/4″ deep. For bunching thin to 8″ apart in rows 12-18″ apart. For baby-leaf production sow 12 seeds/ft. and cut entire plants when 3-6″ tall. Planting in light shade and keeping the seed stalks cut increases summer quality, but a good crop will re-grow in fall even if plants bolt. Harvest side leaves until plants become well established; later, plants can be cut completely, right above the crown. Plants spread and can be divided.
DAYS TO MATURITY: From direct seeding; subtract about 14 days if transplanting.
SEED SPECS: SEEDS/OZ.: See individual varieties.
PACKET: 100 seeds.
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