British farmers prepare pumpkins ahead of busy Halloween period

Pumpkin sales are peakingaheadofHalloweenfestivities, andfarmersare expecting to do a brisk trade in the upcoming weeks.

Halloweenis the second largest retail festival in the UK after Christmas.

Fox's Farm Produce grow and sell between 50,000-100,000pumpkinsa year - all in the lead up toHalloween, and sell both directly to consumers and shops.

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"We loveHalloween. It has always been in the family, my dad used to grow them and we just capitalised on this as well. It is very Americanised, a growing market and we just lovepumpkins," says Guy French, who grew up on a potato and vegetable farm and has run Foxes Farm Produce since 2003.

Millions ofpumpkinsare grown in the UK each year, and up to 90% of orange ones are sold in the lead up toHalloween.