Garden sorrel is a perennial plant that is very popular in home gardens and allotments in Central and Eastern Europe. It produces sour-tasting spear-shaped leaves that can be harvested several times a year. Juicy sorrel foliage contains plenty of vitamins and minerals, dietary fibre, and folic acid. Apart from those valuable ingredients, sorrel contains oxalic acid, that reacts with calcium and should therefore be avoided by people suffering from kidney diseases. Do not worry, it is enough to add dairy products, such as cream, yoghurt, milk, or even eggs, to sorrel to neutralize negative oxalic acid effects. Sorrel leaves delight with a fresh taste and nice texture when young and can therefore be used in many ways. Add sorrel to spice up your soups, salads, omelettes. With sorrel, you can also substitute spinach in various fillings. The always abundantly yielding sorrel enables you to prepare home-made puree, a base for a vitamin-rich soup for the winter months.
Sorrel belongs to undemanding vegetables. It grows well in the open field; partial shade does no harm to this resistant plant. It fares well in most garden soils, but fertile, moist, permeable, and light soil guarantees best results. Sow in spring or late summer for the early harvest. Place seeds in shallow grooves, in rows forty centimetres apart. Do not forget to thin dense sorrel cultures. Keep the strongest seedlings at least ten centimetres apart. Sorrel harvest comes approximately twelve weeks after the sow.
Each package contains 100 grams of seeds. Growing tips and the sow-by-date were printed on the package.
- Use: fresh market; home-made preserves
- Harvest time: 12 weeks after the sow, throughout the entire season
- Vegetation form: perennial
- Foliage: dark green, spear-shaped
- Site: open or partial shade; fertile, moist, permeable, light soil
- Weight (in grams): 100 g
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All seeds we sell are subject to a multi-level quality control checks and only then are carefully packed and dispatched. Our products have been awarded numerous certificates and comply with the highest standards of the European Union. Our employees are experienced gardeners who are more than happy to answer your every question.
Where do our seeds come from?
All of the seeds sold in our shop come from the best producers from across the European Union. Thanks to a long-standing cooperation with them we were able to develop the most adequate storing and dispatch conditions, guaranteeing that you always receive fresh and carefully tested batches of seeds. Exclusion of the middlemen from the whole process not only makes it possible for us to avoid sending out-of-date seeds that might have been lying too long on a warehouse shelf, but also ensures the most attractive price for top quality products.
The quality control process
All our seeds must pass a four-stage quality control process.
Stage one begins with a careful selection of the suppliers. Than we proceed with controlling their crops, foreign producers are not excluded from the quality control process. Plants are checked at every stage of their development: when they start to grow, during blooming and when they start bearing fruit (seeds). At this stage the most important thing is to ensure proper spacing of the plants. Thanks to that obtaining the desired morphological characteristics of each particular species or variety, such as colour, height and shape, can be ensured.
Stage two consists of a detailed verification tests in laboratory conditions. With the use of the highest quality equipment by the highly qualified staff, our suppliers perform more than 30 000 quality checks annually. The seeds that do not meet our requirements are subject to technological refining processes, including drying, cleaning, upgrading and testing again.
Stage three starts with sowing seeds in selected control plots. That way we obtain valuable, exact information concerning their germination that must be maintained at an appropriate level. Simultaneously, the varietal identity of each species is checked at this stage.
Stage four takes place in our warehouses and consists of eliminating seeds that have been stored for too long on our shelves and replacing them with new batches. Each package is stamped with a unique batch number and also with the sow-by-date.
All four stages combined allow us to state with confidence that the seeds we deliver comply with the highest standards and have completed all required control stages with flying colours.
Prizes and awards
The seeds we sell are widely recognized for their quality and have won many awards. Our seeds won numerous gold medals and distinctions for their high quality. The World of Flowers was also honoured for its innovative approach.
Among those awards there were: TOP INNOVATION (June 2015), GOLD MEDAL AT THE POZNAN INTERNATIONAL FAIR (2015), CONSUMER QUALITY LEADER (2014), FARMER OF THE YEAR (2014).
In addition, we have also been awarded the “IDEAL BUSINESS” certificate for two years in a row.
Germination
We are committed to selling only the highest quality seeds. Taking into consideration the efforts we make daily, please also note that plants are living organisms and their germination and growth depends on many factors, such as temperature, soil type, humidity and the frequency with that they are watered, sowing time and conditions, use of fertilizers and plant protection agents (pesticides), as well as weather and climate conditions. We provide help by sharing the accurate and up-to-date sowing and growing information, however, we cannot bear any responsibility for the plants that were not cultivated in conditions appropriate for given species.
