I have a 2 year old buckler-leaf sorrel plant on my allotment, which I bought as a small (3" pot) plant from the garden centre. It's now enormous (3' across). If it weren't for the fact that lots of other things have struggled this year, and therefore I'm grateful for every bit of (non-weed) green leaf I can see, I'd have given it a ruthless cut-back by now. As it is it has stay of execution for a few weeks. It's not a very exciting plant, but the leaves are very tasty and give an unexpected pzizz (is that a word?) in a green salad. Haven't used it for soup, but I do use 'plain leaved' sorrel from the garden in soups. |