IT’S THAT bewitching time of year again when we all get into the spirit of Halloween.

Pumpkins play a major part in the celebrations, with households decorating their homes and gardens with the fruit.

Shops too make use of pumpkins in their seasonal displays.

A pumpkin is technically a fruit, but it’s often referred to as a vegetable. The difference between fruits and vegetables is primarily based on how they grow: a pumpkin is classed as a fruit because it’s a product of the seed-bearing structure of flowering plants. Vegetables, on the other hand, are the edible portion of plants such as leaves, stems, roots, bulbs, flowers and tubers.

Here, in this picture from 2009, Graham Hallas, left, and Alan Green, right, from Joseph Rastrick, suppliers to the fruit and vegetable trade, are pictured in St James Wholesale Market, Essex Street, Bradford, with a huge pumpkin. It would take some doing to carve that.