Gardening: How to grow your own Halloween pumpkins

If you’ve space in your veg patch, room in a compost heap or a large pot, you could be growing your own pumpkins next year

Pumpkins are fairly easy to grow and you’ll be impressed by the results of your labours (Alamy/PA)

It’s Halloween season when pumpkins are carved to make all sorts of spooky shapes and tealights are added to create a ghoulish lantern.

If you’ve space in your veg patch or a large pot, or even room on your compost heap, you could be growing your own pumpkins next year.