As autumn really sets in and Halloween is on the way, you may be wondering how you can make your home feel cosy and spooky before Christmas soon hits.
Halloween is synonymous with scary costumes, spooky films, and treat or treaters ringing the doorbell.
But many families have taken to going pumpkin picking in October, and then carving them to make spooky or cute decorations.
Rather than heading to your local supermarket to choose the biggest pumpkin to carve, farms open up their gates offering people to pick their own pumpkins.
From large and small pumpkins, green or yellow to odd shapes and sizes pumpkin picking spots offer the weirdest and most wonderful pumpkins to choose from.
Pumpkin picking has become bigger over the large few years, with more and more farms offering the festive activity.
We’ve put together the best pumpkin picking spots in the UK to search for the perfect or not so perfect pumpkin ready for the night of Halloween.
Best pumpkin picking spots in the UK
1. Piglets Adventure Farm, Kent
Not only can you pick your pumpkin, but you can also enjoy a day out meeting lots of animals and ending the day with a sourdough pizza, perfect.
2. Undley Farm, Suffolk
Offering 20 different varieties of pumpkins this is the place to get the weirdest and wackiest pumpkin you can find. It also has attractions for the children such as donkey rides, a straw bale pyramid, maize maze, and pumpkin carving demonstrations.
3. Windmill Animal Farm, Lancashire
Before picking your favourite pumpkin out of 20,000 that are on-site, why not explore the farm with the family too.
4. Avon Valley Adventure Park, Bristol
Navigate your way through the mountains of pumpkins or if you forgot your wellies you can select your pumpkin from the tabletop areas around the site.
5. Sopley Farm, Dorset
Nestled on the edge of The New Forest this farm has thousands of pumpkins to choose from, along with wheelbarrows to use, so grab as many as you can.
6. Strawberry Fields, Devon
Pick a pumpkin, watch a magic show and find yourself found the maize maze for a fun family day out.
7. Mr. Pumpkin, Derby
With a variety of 20 different pumpkins, this plant plants around 36,000 pumpkins a year, so be sure to give yourself plenty of time to choose your favourites.
8. Nation Forest Adventure Farm, Staffordshire
You can pick up a free pumpkin at this adventure farm, as well as enjoying a ride on the pumpkin wagon tractor.
9. Maxey’s Farm Shop, Nottinghamshire
Along with picking your own pumpkin you can also enjoy some food from the cafe or choose some Halloween gifts from their shop onsite.
10. Garsons Farm, Surrey
One of the UK’s largest pumpkin picking farms, you can also enjoy other produce such as seasonal vegetables and flowers.
11. Arnprior Farm, Scotland
With over 10,000 pumpkins you’ll be spoilt for choice on this farm which the choice of white pumpkins, orange, green and striped. It also offers luxury clamping pods and an eco-friendly campsite.
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12. Foxes Farm Produce, Essex
Put your wellies on this pumpkin patch can get muddy with thousands of pumpkins ready to be picked for the perfect Halloween centerpiece.
13. Bell’s Pumpkin Patch, Lincolnshire
Introducing pick your own patches for the children and bounce and climb activities this is a farm, perfect for a family day out.
14. Cattows Farm, Leicestershire
The largest of all, this pumpkin picking spot is the biggest patch in the UK offering over 170,000 different pumpkins and other seasonal vegetables.
15. Farmer Copleys, Yorkshire
Choose from over 7,000 pumpkins on this farm, along with plenty of activities available for the children on the day.
