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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Zoe Wood

Rain and slugs blamed for this year’s green-tinged Halloween pumpkins

Two carved Halloween pumpkins
‘They’re perfectly good pumpkins and they’ll carve and look wonderful in the dark … but they might not be 100% orange.’ Photograph: Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Giant orange pumpkins with ghoulish grins have become a Halloween doorstep tradition but this year trick-or-treaters may be greeted with even spookier green-tinged jack-o-lanterns after a nightmare season for growers.

In Asda, pumpkin displays have signs telling shoppers “don’t worry if I’m slightly green, I will ripen at home and turn orange”.

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