Hi from Brum!

[gunners71uk]

i like butternut squash and parsnip soup its yum gotta have cream in it, well anywhere nr that tornado in brum.

[diver]

mine sound the same as yours...can anybody help, please

[Wombat]

G'day Guys,

If you have flowers but no fruit it suggests a lack of bees, so you will need to hand pollinate. you can do this by getting a fresh male flower and a cotton bud, getting the pllen of the male flower and applying it to the stamens (I think) of the femal flower. I don't knoe if you have enough hot weather left to get any decent sized fruit though.

Nev

[diver]

thanks wombat, I will go and get some cotton buds and give it a try....we never have a lot of hot weather s oit's worth a try

[Pumpkin Souper]

Blimey, I've not been checking the forum for a little while so missed all these messages of welcome! Thank you.

The tornado missed us - it started about 5mins walk away and then moved on into Moseley. There has been terrible destruction all around here though and it's incredible that no-one was killed.

If anyone has any good Pumpkin Soup recipes that they're willing to share I'd love to have them. Aside from the fact that I like it and would like to try some alternatives, my web site ( http://allotment.humanlint.com ) gets a lot of visitors trying to find P'soup recipes so I'm hoping to collect a number of them and start to put them on. All recipe contributions gratefully recieved!

Thanks again for the warm hello!

Clare.

[Pumpkin Souper]

Ooops! Just spotted the Pumpkin Soup thread on the recipe swap board. I would still love to hear people's variations on the theme...

[Andy Hamilton]

roasted pumpkin soup is well nice.

How gos it pumlinsouper, I believe I have not welcomed you yet, very rude of my after so many months. But welcome now mate.