Thousands expected at Colney pumpkin festival
Thousands of people are expected to attend an annual pumpkin festival in London Colney this week.
Willows Farm in Coursers Road routinely welcomes over 20,000 visitors to its festival will be opening the gates to its Pumpkin Patch on Friday.
Each child who visits the festival will have the chance to harvest a free pumpkin from the patch, either to take home or carve a spooky design in the Willows Carving Cavern.
There were 10,000 pumpkin seeds planted at Willows earlier in the year and with some pumpkins already reaching a mammoth 20kg in weight.
The Pumpkin Festival will take place between October 24 and November 3.
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