Autumn colours at Hyde Hall, featuring the huge pumpkins. Last year, Hyde Hall paid £1250 for a single pumpkin seed, hoping it could be nurtured into a world-record weight. Not sure if any of these are from the same stock but some were huge!

Apparently .....
The word "pumpkin" was first used in the fairy tale Cinderella.
Each pumpkin has about 500 seeds
There are more than 45 different varieties of pumpkin
Pumpkins are fruit
Every part of a pumpkin is edible, skin, leaves, flowers, pulp, seeds and stem
Pumpkins are 90% water