Red Vein Sorrel – 100 Seeds

Red Vein Sorrel Seeds. Bloody sorrel (Rumex sanguineus) , also known as  bloody dock, bloodwort, red-veined dock and wood dock, is a striking bright green, red-veined herbaceous perennial, culinary green, and aromatic herb.   With its spring-green leaves and dark red veins, bloody sorrel must be one of the most decorative greens you can grow.

This herbaceous perennial produces a tightly packed rosette of leaves about a foot tall from a deep taproot. The medium green lanceolate leaves are distinctively marked with an intricate network of colorful veins of red to purple. In mild climates it remains evergreen but the leaves die back to the ground in harsh winters.

Red Vein Sorrel Culinary Uses

Sorrel is delicious used as an herb or as a salad green.

• A traditional way to enjoy sorrel is cooked into a sauce and served with fish, lending a lemony flavor without the use of lemon.
• It’s also great cooked into soups or stews.
• Baby sorrel greens can be tossed into mixed salads.
• If you don’t have lemons to make a salad dressing, use sorrel to add tang.

Growing Red Vein Sorrel

Indoor Sowing: Late Winter and Early Spring.

Direct Sowing: Early Spring.

• Red Vein Sorrel Seeds can be sown in the garden as early as 2 to 3 weeks before the average last frost date in spring.
• Sow sorrel seed ½ inch deep and 2 to 3 inches apart.
• Thin successful seedlings from 12 to 18 inches apart when plants are 6 to 8 weeks old.
• Space rows 18 to 24 inches apart.
• Sorrel will be ready for harvest 60 days after sowing.
• Sorrel should be kept evenly moist.
• Divide established sorrel in spring.
• Bloody dock is best grown in full sun to partial shade in average to moist soil.
• It can even be grown as a marginal plant around ponds, in a bog, or in a water garden