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Burnet Salad
The leaves can be chopped and added to butter for a gourmet spread. Keep flower stalks pruned for the best tasting foliage. Burnet will grow in just about any soil and actually prefers and tastes best in poor, dry soils. Burnet Salad is a hardy perennial that is great for novice gardeners and gourmets. Burnet is a wonderful container plant and an attractive ornamental with delicate round, pink flowers. In mild climates, Burnet can be seeded in the fall. The Burnet Salad, 'Peterium sanguisorba', has refreshing, light cucumber flavored leaves that will add flavor to salads, soups, and cool summer drinks all year long. Soil also must be well drained. If protected, Burnet Salad will produce tasty, green leaves even in cold climate winters. Plant 2 weeks before the average last frost date. The attractive plant looks like rustic maiden hair fern and can be planted in rock gardens, flower beds, and containers. ... find out more
Sorrel - Common Sorrel is very high in Vitamin C and has many uses. Sorrel prefers a moderately acid soil and the soil needs to be kept moist for the best flavor and production. The Sorrel leaves have a sharp, lemon/spinach flavor and is one of the earliest spring greens. Plant the Sorrel 2 weeks before the average last frost date. The plant is also called Sour Dock, Herb Patience, and Patience Dock. Once you try Sorrel, it will become as regular a garden plant as spinach. Sorrel is an underutilized vegetable in the United States and unjustifiably so. The young tender spring leaves can be used as salad greens, famous for Cream of Sorrel soup, cooked like spinach and served with trout or salmon, or mixed in with cooked spinach or chard. The Sorrel plant is 12 to 36 inches tall and has large, crinkled, arrow-shaped leaves. |
