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Tesco reports bumper pumpkin harvest for Halloween

by LLB Reporter
10th Oct 18 8:28 am

Customers will be spoilt for choice this Halloween, with a bumper British pumpkin crop thanks to the warm weather. The unusually hot summer has produced an extra 100,000 of the countryโ€™s most popular spooky fruit, in a number of unusual colours, shapes and sizes.

Tesco has stepped in to stock a total of two million pumpkins, a five per cent increase on last year, and half of the stock will be increasingly popular, lesser-known varieties, which can easily be neglected by retailers and go to waste. This includes a new unusual grey blue variety, โ€˜The Blue Pumpkinโ€™.

Tesco predicts the white โ€˜ghost pumpkinโ€™ will double in popularity this year – with twice as many customers choosing this smaller ghoulish-sounding variety to decorate their homes.

New and lesser-known varieties, such as the โ€˜Superfreakโ€™ (a small orange variety covered in mottled green bumps), are set to spook out customers who like to make especially scary decorations.

Jordan Blandford, pumpkin buyer for Tesco said: โ€œThe pumpkin carving skills of our customers have reached new heights in recent years. Everyone is looking to carve a unique design to show off and impress the neighbours. Spoiling customers with a variety of unusually coloured pumpkins will give Tesco shoppers a real competitive edge.โ€

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