The Pumpkin Patch: Meet the East Yorkshire farmers who are among the pioneers of American Halloween traditions in the UK
Jason started by growing just a quarter of an acre of the crop that saw a harvest of around 1,000 pumpkins in 2010 and this year he has grown 12 acres and 40 varieties of pumpkins and squashes which, with an average yield of 4,000 pumpkins per acre, will see around 48,000 available this month with half of them being purchased by visitors to the farm.
“It’s something a little bit different. I can’t take all the credit for it. You see things that people do in other countries like America, where Hallowe’en is so big, and you take something and try to put your own twist on it. It’s all about keeping things fresh with new ideas. “We don’t have the infrastructure for irrigating so we have been relying on what little moisture has been in the ground, and what little has come out of sky. Luckily, the pumpkins got their feet down and found some moisture. We have relatively heavyish land and that holds its moisture, which has been a benefit to us this time.
“While we grow many different colours of pumpkin and squash it is still the orange of Mars and Spitfire that are what our customers want and they come from miles around. We are not too far from
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