28th October

Most this week’s work was spent strimming and weeding the tunnels, trying to get everything spic and span for this Sundays pumpkin day.

Every year in the past we have left the pumpkins near the field where we have grown them.

We have though about leaving them in the field where they have been grown.

Most of the other farms that grow them do that.

But we grow them beside all the other field crops.

And they are in beds next to the other squash plants, and the courgettes, the courgettes we are in every day harvesting them through the season, and the field always ends up in gutters at this time of the year.

So, to have people coming into the field would be a nightmare, kids would be losing their wellies left right and centre, as the muddy holes would act like magnets to all under 13s.

It might be a future idea if I ever decided to leave the pumpkins in the field to re name it as a pumpkin tuff mudder.

So, with having the pumpkins at the tunnels, I thought it would be an ideal day to have a tunnel open day at the same time.

The tunnels at this time of the year are all full of Autum/winter produce.

There is a lot to see with over 450 meter of tunnels all 12 meters wide.

And at the tunnel area is where we store all the machinery for working the field and the tunnels, from ploughing to planting and finishing off with the weeding.

Beside the tunnels has an added benefit of being right next to the farm shop and restaurant, so fine and close for a bite to eat.

There is also the very well stocked Jamesfield garden centre.

And up the stairs from the farm shop the first floor have a kiddies treetop play area.

We have posted this on facebook over the last month, it is usually a busy day.

The pumpkins are usually enormous, and it is quite comical seeing parents trying to say no to their kids choosing the biggest ones, as they know they must carry them all the way back to their car.

But they are smaller this year, so easier to carry, and we can get the cars parked at the tunnels which is only 50 meters away from the pumpkins.