Enormous exhibition-worthy vegetables excellent for entering into competitions. The orange/yellow-skinned pumpkins are high in flavour too - perfect for pies and soups.

If you’ve got a bit of space on your vegetable patch and fancy growing something a bit different, give this pumpkin a try. Sow in rich, deep soil in May, or in modules in doors in April to transplant later and you could be enjoying impressive harvests in autumn.

Pumpkins like to be well watered and well-fed throughout summer while they are growing; they’ll put out lots of leaves too that handily act as a weed suppressant to your vegetable patch.