they go to all the major supermarkets, all over, all over europe. holland, france, spain. ireland. we have got a lorry here in the moment with samples for poland. >> reporter: it's been a bumper crop this year in spite of the weather. bowman's farm in spaulding is so big because they saw the american style halloween celebrations coming a long time ago. >> my father started 40 years ago just planting a few seeds for a bit of fun really then we managed to sell the pumpkins from them and then it goes on. >> reporter: those early customers were from the local u.s. air bases and they helped sow the seeds for the biggest pumpkin patch in europe. >> wow. >> that again was the bbc's anthony bartram reporting. remember last year, 2009 there was a pumpkin shortage. i remember when you had to cook. a shortage of canned pumpkins. there's no shortage, the
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