00:00Here at Essington Fruit Farm and Richard's sitting on a pumpkin. He's got a great smile on his face.
00:05Perhaps we all need to sit on a pumpkin. So we're with Richard and Penny. Hello guys.
00:09Hello.
00:09It's that time of year, pumpkin season.
00:12It is, yes. Come down every year.
00:14It does indeed. And just talk us through what people have got to expect if they come down to Essington Fruit Farm this Halloween.
00:22Right, well, first of all, we've got a terrific range of pumpkins this year.
00:26Yeah.
00:27Despite the dry weather, the pumpkins have grown really well and they're a lovely colour and we've got some really nice big pumpkins this year.
00:35Probably the best we've had in a long time, isn't it? Don't you think?
00:38Yeah. It was certainly a lot better than last year.
00:39Yes, absolutely.
00:40Well, there's that English chap, the Cook Brothers, isn't it, that have got the record this year, the world record for the heaviest and the biggest pumpkin.
00:48So maybe this weather this year has been a good spell for pumpkins overall, maybe.
00:53Well, funnily enough, we've got two fields of pumpkins and the one field they've grown really big.
00:59Yeah.
01:00And on another field where it's not quite so much of a tentative, we've got some lovely pumpkins but they're not quite so big as they are on the other field.
01:07Yeah.
01:08But that's great for your displays, isn't it?
01:09Yeah.
01:09Because everybody wants a big pumpkin.
01:11Exactly.
01:12So we've got really something for everyone. We've got some of the small gourds, we've got some of the small squashes, haven't we?
01:17Ranging right up to huge pumpkins.
01:21What we're finding now is quite a lot of people will buy a big main pumpkin and then buy little decorative pumpkins that don't need carving to put round the main pumpkin.
01:34Are they called something like gourds?
01:36Gourds, yeah.
01:37Gourds, that's how you pronounce it, gourds.
01:39Gourds, yeah, gourds, and then we've got quite a few squashes which are little pumpkins, which are really nice to eat.
01:46And actually they're really tasty, aren't they?
01:48Yeah.
01:49Really tasty.
01:49Some of them you can eat the skin on them.
01:51Yeah.
01:52Really good.
01:53But then we've also got different coloured pumpkins, haven't we?
01:55So we've got white ones.
01:56We've got white, orange, yellow, blue, red.
02:01Mad, isn't it?
02:02The range that they come in.
02:03Yeah, and some warty ones.
02:04Yeah.
02:05A few warty ones as well.
02:06Plenty of scary ones to create some good displays with.
02:11Cool.
02:12You've got a little trail so people can come and get their pictures.
02:15We've got a throne here, the pumpkin throne that you're modelling.
02:18I can see a pumpkin cow.
02:20I've never seen one of them before.
02:21Yeah.
02:21That's a new one on me.
02:23You've got lots of scarecrows.
02:24And also, you've just got loads of stuff down here anyway, haven't you?
02:27You've got a great farm shop.
02:28You've got the restaurant.
02:30So you're open for business.
02:33Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:33It is.
02:34So breakfast starts at 8.30.
02:36Yeah.
02:36And the restaurant's open right through until last order, the 3 o'clock.
02:41It's open until...
02:42Great stuff.
02:43Get yourself.
02:44Well, I'll spend like this.
02:47Sausages for your pumpkin feast.
02:49Where the meat was born on the premises.
02:52Yeah, absolutely.
02:53Exactly.
02:53Yeah.
02:53Fantastic.
02:54You also get your Christmas meat ordered at the same time.
02:57Yeah, yeah.
02:57I noticed that.
02:58You've got the little booklet, haven't you, for the Christmas orders?
03:00Oh, yeah.
03:00Getting the Christmas meat ordering.
03:02Yeah, getting early, guys.
03:04Right, lovely to see you again.
03:05Thank you, guys, and happy Halloween.
03:06Yes, you too.
03:08Okay.
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