On 24 Oct, 10:05, Steve Wolstenholme
wrote:
It adds a very pleasant lemon flavour but too much will ruin a salad.
I use to grow it in a pot just for salads. Apparently it is slightly
toxic but I'm still alive!

We call it oseille, it's a rumex acetosa and also people call it sour
dock or spinash dock (not to be confused with dock nor wood sorrel
from the oxalidaceae family....). So many name for a fantastic little
plant. I've always cultivated sorrel, french one which I think is a
Belleville and is very lemony, and we love it, especially sorrel and
potato soup. It doesn't deserve chemicals at all. Nothing does
really. Broadback, you should try to enjoy it, make a little corner
for it and transplant some and take out the fugitif ones. If you want
a good south west of france recipe, you know where to find me ;o)