Anyone grown Red Perilla & Red veined sorrel before?

[Vinlander]

I think like a lot of these less common vegetables we don't know how to crop it or eat it - if you grow it tall and pick leaves it's not pleasant, but adequate.  Crop the rosettes which are quite sizeable and beefy and don't reduce nearly as much as spinach (in this strain anyhow) and it's a different story altogether.

How right you are with your first phrase!

'Course some of my favourite discoveries about common ones are pretty odd - like the only way I like chard stems is raw chopped finely crosswise in coleslaw - though when the water is off down the allotment it can be a useful salty drink (if you chew them and spit the strings out).

Weird eh?

Cheers.

[Vinlander]