Oswestry farm gets set for spooky season
There will be no rest for workers at a pumpkin farm over the coming weeks, with almost 50,000 being harvested for Halloween.
Llynclys Hall Farm Shop, near Oswestry, has become the go-to place ahead of the spooky season for people to pick out their favourite ready-to-carve pumpkin for October 31.
Months of preparation have gone in from farm workers to produce the crop, and the public were invited in last week to get their hands on the first pumpkins of the season.
The farm began growing pumpkins more than 20 years ago, when Lynda Jones and her family went on holiday to the US and saw them being grown out there.
This is set to be the biggest year so far, and Lynda said: "We have have had more and more pumpkins every year, and this year we will have about 50,000 in total.
"So many people come down, and this year we have a thing where people can go out and pick their very own pumpkin."
The next few weeks is said to be packed at the farm, with a host of activities, all Halloween related.
Once the season is over, after a couple of months rest it will be back to looking at the following year.
Lynda added: "It has taken a fair few months to get ready, probably about February is when we begin.
"We have a few months off and then the planning begins again."
