We’ve had sorrel in the garden for a couple of years now. It’s a variety called Schavel, from the HSL, and there are three plants that for the most part take care of themselves. Pete and I tried a few baby leaves in a salad last year, but it was far too sour for our tastes and its main use has been to provide the chickens with some greens.
Since the arrival of Cluck and Chewie, it has been under pressure. They love it – they think it’s the best thing ever. Chewie, in particular, would eat her own weight in the stuff every day. Princess Layer has succumbed to peer pressure and now eats more than she used to as well. If I let her free range, she jumps up in the raised bed and browses the sorrel directly.
I’ve given the plants a feed, but I have also sown some more seeds. And I’ve been in the garden for an hour or so today and I have sown another batch of sorrel seeds – this time blood veined sorrel from the OGC.
The rest of the hour was spent sowing flat leaved parsley, Sub Arctic Plenty and Tumbling Tom tomatoes (for a new project, of which more later), potting on my basil seedlings and two new peppermints (one orange, one lavender) and rearranging the seedlings that are living indoors.
I managed the foliar feed I didn’t get around to last time; this time the item bumped onto the next to do list is earthing up the potatoes :)