MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers Nursery and Herb Education Centre is now closed for orders from 16 December 2025 until mid-January 2026 while I take a short festive break.
Thank you for your continued support of my small, home-based nursery throughout the past year. I look forward to helping you grow plants for your kitchen, garden, and herbal home remedies cupboard when I reopen in the new year.
Wishing you a peaceful and nourishing festive season.
Minette
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Sorrel – Garden
$8.50
Sorrel is a PERENNIAL plant growing to 60cm with deep roots, juicy stems and edible, arrow-shaped leaves that taste sour.
Prefers moist soil in a semi-shade to full sun position. Can tolerate acidic soil.
All parts of the plant are edible. It is a good household and dye plant and has medicinal use.
With a delicious lemon-like flavour, the leaves can be eaten fresh and raw in salads, or cooked in soups.
The leaves should be used sparingly in the diet. Flowers are also edible cooked or used as a garnish, and the root can be cooked.
Juice of leaves can be used as a curdling agent for milk.
High in vitamins, the leaves are useful to treat scurvy, and makes a cooling drink for fevers.
Leaf juice, mixed with fumitory, has been historically used for a cure for ringworm and itchy skin.
Roots and leaves provide dye.
Infusion is used for bamboo and wicker polish and for silver. Juice is used as a stain remover.
