Over the past couple of years, Mark and I have taken the boys to a local farm to take part in Pumpkin Picking. Although we love going, there are other places in and around the city where you can go and pick pumpkins!
Pumpkin Picking Peterborough – Updated September 2025
Hill Farm Pick Your Own – Has sadly closed
Skylark Maize Maze, Evening Pumpkin Event! – 24th, 25th and 30th October- Website – 6pm-9pm – adults £12, Children £12, under 2’s free, (includes a medium pumpkin) – Come and find your perfect pumpkin at one of our evening pumpkin picking sessions, you can even carve your pumpkin whilst you’re here with the help of our expert carvers, and we’ll clean up that stinky mess! There’s so much to keep you entertained before and after you’ve picked your pumpkin, including LIVE entertainment, our NEW bar plus slots more! NB:The Funyard attractions will be closed for this event!
Skylark Maize Maze, Week of Wickedness – 18th-31st October – Adults – £15 (online), Children £17 (online), Pumpkins from £3, use code SPOOKYFUN to save up to £4 per ticket! – Website – There is so much to do at Skylarks Maize Maze during their Week of Wickedness. Pumpkin picking, spooky comedy and magic show every single day with Johnny Jaffacake, plus check out the eerie maize maze plus all the funyard attractions. Returning for 2025 Trick or Treat Trail! Explore the abandoned wood!
Ketton Pumpkins PYO – Holme Farm, Ketton, PE9 3SX- Free Entry and Free Parking, 10-4 – Opens 4th October, then every weekend, open all week 25th-31st October – Website – Homemade Cakes and hot drinks, Tractors, Farm Animals and Games. Well-behaved dogs on leads welcome. Free entry, just pay per pumpkin, prices start from £1.
Bowthorpe Park Farm, 18th – 31st October – Manthorpe, Bourne, PE10 0JG – Website – £7 adults and children – Time: 9.30 am till 5 pm – Free pumpkin for every child entry – Come along if you dare to our Spooky Halloween week. Choose your own pumpkin from the Pumpkin Patch before heading over to the barn to carve your creation, meaning no mess at home. – Bale Maze, Straw Pit, Farm Animals, UK’s Largest Oak Tree, and Pumpkin Cannon
Fotheringhay Pumpkin Patch – Stonepit Lodge Farm, PE8 5HX – Free entry – Opens 4th October – 10am-4pm – No booking needed – Kids activities including ride on toys cars/tractors – Stone baked pizza, bouncy castle
Maxey’s Farm Shop Pumpkins – Hockerton Road, Kirklington, NG22 8PB – Website – From 5th October – 9am to 5pm – £2 per person, under 16s free – P..P..Pick up a Pumpkin. Join us to pick your own Pumpkin. We grow all of our own Pumpkins from seed for you to choose the perfect one. We have an award winning farm shop, hot food, a tractor ride and lots of Halloween gifts
Undley Pumpkin Patch – Undley Road, IP28 8BX, Lakenheath – Website – Opens 4th October – 31st October, Every weekend and throughout school holidays – Pumpkin picking direct from the vine. – Halloween Maize maze, Giant Inflatables, Pumpkin carving demonstrations, straw bale pyramid, Halloween Stalls.
Rutland Pumpkins – Will not be open for the 2025 season
Pumpkins at Freshfields – Freshfields Farm, Benwick Road, Ramsey Forty Foot, PE26 2XU – Facebook page– Pick your own pumpkins straight from the field. All shapes, sizes and colours to find your perfect pumpkins. No booking required. Cash only site. No dogs allowed. Free entry and Free parking – 10am-5pm – open every weekend from the 4th October, then daily from the 24th to the 31st.
Sutterton Farm – Not open for the 2025 season
Pumpkin Jims Patch – Not open for the 2025 season
Tyrrell Farm – RAILWAY YARD ENTRANCE, Backgate, Cowbit, Lincolnshire PE12 6AP – Opens 11th October then every weekend plus half term week, 17th-31st from 10am-4pm – Free Entry – There is also a variety of giant pumpkins, white pumpkins, knobbly pumpkins, and Cinderella pumpkins, as well as the pick your own pumpkins. toilet facilities. – Facebook Page
Bell’s Pumpkin Patch – Lowfields Road, Benington, PE22 0EE, Boston – Website – Opens 11th October then every weekend, plus half term week 25th -31st – Single Ticket £6.98, Family of 4 – £24.49, Pumpkin carving per person £2.50, Fire the Cannon £6 (for Charity) – Ranked top 5 Instagrammable patches in 2021. There are plenty of photo opportunities!
Pick your own pumpkins
Pumpkin carving (additional cost)
Pumpkin Cannon (additional cost)
Fun Fair Rides
Bounce and climb areas
Tiny Tots Area
Tractor Ride
Maize Maze
Makers Market
Potato Catapults
Cheek Art
Circus Skills
Giant Pumpkins
Plus lots more
Rusty’s Great Pumpkin Patch @ Worzals – Open from the 4th October – WHAT’S INCLUDED?
Over 80,000 Pumpkins of all Shapes, Sizes and Colours
Meet & Greets with your favourite Princesses from Darling Princess Parties
Electric Tractor Track
Scavenger Hunt
Dinosaurs
Hook-a-duck
Street Food
Autumnal Photo Opportunities
All undercover – No Mud or Mess!
Accessible for Prams & Wheelchairs
We are going to Skylark this year and cannot wait!