Pumpkins go to the ball

Steve Winterbottom

It may sound like a cliché, but pumpkins really are the Cinderella of the horticultural world. They are mainly for decoration rather than consumption, and in the eye of the consumer at least only fit for a prince in the 24 hours until midnight on October 31 each year. David Shapley reports.

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