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Spinach Dock (Monk`s rhubarb)
Monk`s rhubarb (Spinach Dock) - Rumex patientia L.
A unique kind of sorrel!
Perennial leaf vegetable. Harvest grows within 45-60 days after sowing. Can grow for 4-5 years in the same place.
This plant is still a rare guest on our gardens, but it is gradually becoming popular.
The interest of gardeners in this new product is not accidental - spinach-sorrel has a high protein content and a huge amount of vitamins.
This is of course important, but people fell in love with spinach sorrel due to the complete absence of oxalic acid (due to which ordinary sorrel has many contraindications, since it contains many lemon and apple acides).
A unique kind of sorrel!
Perennial leaf vegetable. Harvest grows within 45-60 days after sowing. Can grow for 4-5 years in the same place.
This plant is still a rare guest on our gardens, but it is gradually becoming popular.
The interest of gardeners in this new product is not accidental - spinach-sorrel has a high protein content and a huge amount of vitamins.
This is of course important, but people fell in love with spinach sorrel due to the complete absence of oxalic acid (due to which ordinary sorrel has many contraindications, since it contains many lemon and apple acides).
* Spinach-sorrel is a perennial plant, large: leaves up to 60 cm, peduncles up to 150 cm high. There is almost the same amount of protein in spinach sorrel as in legumes, plus all the known vitamins are present in almost a complete set. Sorrel contains citric, succinic, salicylic and folic acids, iron salts and organic compounds of potassium, phosphorus, sulfur.
Considering the early dates in which the first leaves can be harvested, it becomes clear how healthy spinach sorrel is.
It is very unpretentious in cultivation, does not require a specific composition or type of soil, it tolerates drought well and has a high winter hardiness. It is better to plant it in sunny places, but it also feels good in the shade. The first leaves appear immediately after the snow melts, in late March - early April. Leaves grow very quickly, the bush itself grows up to one and a half meters and you can harvest up to ten times in a season.
You need to remove the leaves regularly, while they are young: if you do not cut it off in time, the leaves will quickly coarse.
The growth of comfort ceases with the onset of persistent frosts.
Eng.: Patience dock, Garden patience, Monk`s rhubarb. Suom.: Pinaattihierakka. Sven.: Spenatskräppa.
* This type of sorrel contains only 0.2% oxalic acid and even a sweet tooth can eat a bunch of delicate greens without wrinkling.
It differs from common sorrel in longer and narrower wavy leaves.
English spinach is quite winter-hardy, grows very early in spring, gives a good harvest of leaves already at the first shearing.
It differs from common sorrel in a higher content of ascorbic acid and carotene.
(Some foodies think that raw spinach sorrel is too bland, but it is usually added to salads with two to three leaves of regular sorrel).
In soups and cabbage soup, spinach sorrel is just great!
Spinach sorrel can be used to fill pies, use as a seasoning for meat dishes, cook preserves and jams, make vegetable purees and salads.
It is added to borscht and spring soups, green borscht is boiled and added to vegetable stew. You can freeze it for the winter or preserve it like an ordinary sorrel.
