Easy Early Salads With Perennial Greens

[Elijay]

Mother Earth News recommended these greens which are grown by a contributor based in Kansas, USA.

* ordinary chives
* savory garlic chives
* nutty Sylvetta arugula (Diplotaxis muralis)
* lemony common garden sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
* rare patience sorrel (Rumex patientia), aka patience spinach/patience dock

Anyone got ideas where to source in UK?

Here's the link

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* ordinary chives
* savory garlic chives
* nutty Sylvetta arugula (Diplotaxis muralis)
* lemony common garden sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
* rare patience sorrel (Rumex patientia), aka patience spinach/patience dock

Sylvetta arugula info:

Sylvetta means “the little wild one” in Italian, but my crop is cultivated. I have a reliable harvest of Sylvetta from late spring thru first frost, but for a wintertime harvest I would need tp to sow this “wild” arugula in a greenhouse if I wanted to make sure that its tender leaves wouldn’t be toughened by rain or frost.

There are two botanically different herbs popularly known as Sylvetta that grow wild across Italy, Diplotaxis muralis and Diplotaxis erucoides. They are both distantly related to the common horticultural form of arugula, Eruca sativa, but compared to the domesticated arugula the wild arugulas are more pungently flavored. Even in cultivation wild arugulas grow slower than their “improved” cousin, and they go to seed faster; two traits that make wild arugulas a problematical crop to cultivate.

I grow Diplotaxis muralis, the Sylvetta type known in English as “Wall Rocket”.This wild arugula has the advantage of being a perennial herb that lends itself to repeated harvests. There are still people who forage for Sylvetta in the Italian countryside, but even in Italy most of the “wild arugula” that’s consumed is farmed.

Diplotaxis muralis from Jekkas Herbs.

[Elijay]

Thank you so much for your advice and the link. Diplotaxis muralis is now my shopping list.