[Robster]

I was digging over a bed the other day and found a row of thick rooted plants and remembered it was sorrel.  Too late I had chucked them out as I needed the bed for something else.

Anyway was reading on the packet and it says they can be grown as an annual or a perennial. 

Question is has anyone grown sorrel as a perennial, is it better as an annual? Any advice problems etc?

It seems a shame to waste the root system and the plants were throwing up new leaf while I was sowing my new seeds.

[Mrs Bee]

I grow sorrel as a perennial. It is tough as old boots, the plant not the leaves, which are gorgeous in salads, sauces and stuffings.

I love the sharp lemon bite of the leaves.

When the leaves get to too big and I haven't used many of them in cooking I cut down to ground level and get them romping away again as baby leaves.

I would stick them in back in the ground where you want them to stay.

My sorrel is coming through and I am using it in salads to give them a bit of bite while there is nothing else up yet.
You can get red veined sorrel and I bought 1 plant and turned it into 6.

They are easy to multiply by splitting the plants.
I have to net mine because the pigeons love them and so do the chooks.

[snowdrops]

I can vouch for them being tough. I sowed some alongside my strawberry bed,then the strawberries died/ got moved. No connection. Rejigged the area, laid some slabs for a sitting area & still it comes up in a most unfortunate place, so I have been cutting them down when they get too big,but still it appears. I do use the baby leaves & want to look up more uses for them

[Mrs Bee]

It goes beautifully with fish, chicken, guinea fowl, pheasant and pork Snowy.

If you make a sauce by warming some double cream or crème fraiche with  some fish juices, or reduced wine or fish stock or mussel juices and then at the last minute add some shredded sorrel. Bliss. Any fish but especially salmon.

Shredded with some breadcrumbs and seasoning as a stuffing for fish, pork or chicken.

Chicken, fowl or pork casserole with white wine, then add some double cream and shredded sorrel.

[snowdrops]

Thanks Mrs Bee, do you think I could substitute dairy free 'cream' it it would still work? Hubby is dairy free, I do fish pie with it & it's ok if I flavour with parsley

[Mrs Bee]

If it is OK with parsley it will be Ok with sorrel.