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HALLOWE'EN lanterns might look a little different this year, as the bad summer weather has hampered pumpkin crops.
One Wiltshire farmer's crop of pumpkins is down by 50 per cent this year and they have a decidedly green tinge having not ripened properly.
But conversely he has a bumper crop of cauliflowers, which have thrived in the wet weather.
Phil Collins, 49, of V&P Collins Farm Shop in Bromham, said: "We have only had three and a half trailer-loads this year whereas normally we get seven trailer loads.
"I've spoken to lots of other growers and they are all in the same boat as us.
"Cauliflowers on the other hand are doing ok - I haven't quite worked out how to make them into Hallowe'en lanterns yet though, they tend to fall apart."
Mr Collins said people might have to make do with green pumpkins this year as orange ones are in such short supply.
"We do have white ones as well which can look good for Hallowe'en and we have experimented with blue ones too," he added.
The scarcity of pumpkins in the UK this year has been made worse by similar shortages in Europe and the US who have suffered from either too hot or too wet summers.