Ugly pumpkins become pick of the crop for Halloween decorations
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Ugly pumpkins become pick of the crop for Halloween decorations

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They're lumpy, bumpy and ugly but instead of being relegated to the rubbish bin, these pumpkins take pride of place in Halloween displays. "They were basically subsistence farming at that point because the farm had become so small," Randy Graham, Paul's son-in-law, said. "There's kind of the greyish blues, yellows … ones that have kind of lumps on them, orange with green warts on them … flat, round, tall everything in between," Mr Johanning said. "The fall editions of home design magazines started showing some of these different coloured pumpkins and people latched on to them as a unique kind of twist on the fall décor." "Forty years ago when we started planting pumpkins, it was pretty much orange, and that was it," he said.

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Kyle Breaux loads pumpkins onto a wheelbarrow at a pumpkin patch on the Pierce College Farm Oct. 5 in Woodland Hills. It’s the day after Halloween and the pumpkin on the doorstep is looking deflated, a telling sign that it’s time to get rid of the jack-o’-lantern. On Nov. 5, Los Angeles Councilmember Katy Yaroslasvky and the Los Angeles Board …

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