Best Pumpkin Picking In Kent
The Best Pumpkin Picking In Kent 2025
As the leaves turn golden and the air grows crisp, there’s one essential autumn activity that signals the start of Halloween season in the Garden of England: pumpkin picking! Kent is blessed with incredible farms and patches that transform into autumnal wonderlands every October, offering the perfect family day out. This October Half-Term is a great time to explore your local pumpkin patch, offering a range of activities, trails, and perfect spots for those photo opportunities.
We’ve scoured the county to bring you the definitive guide to the Best Pumpkin Picking in Kent for 2025. Discover where to find the biggest, weirdest, and most varied gourds, enjoy scarecrow trails, and find the ideal Instagram shot, your Halloween adventures, along with all the information you need on opening times and ticket details.
Essential Dates
Half Term: 20th October to October 24th 2025
Halloween: Friday, October 31, 2025
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We’ve highlighted where dogs are allowed, and for a complete round-up, see the Dog-Friendly Pumpkin Patches in Kent Guide.
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TOP TIPS
See also plus top tips on how to select the best one, and carving-creating help and events – so pick up a pumpkin near you in the Garden of England.
Happy Picking!
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Updated 1st October 2025
BEST PUMPKIN PICKING IN KENT 2025
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SITTINGBOURNE PUMPKIN PATCH
Meet the quirky scarecrow characters which reside on the farm for great photo ops and the Halloween family Pumpkin Patch in Sittingbourne. Erriot Wood Pumpkin Patch in Sittingbourne.
Dates: 11th, 12th, 18th to 26th October 2025
Bookable slots: 10am, 11.30am, 1pm and 2.30pm – 2 hour sessions.
Price: £5 per car, pumpkin prices vary. Booking fees apply
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FUN IN GRAVESEND
Lots of family Halloween Half Term Fun at Broadditch Farm Shop with pumpkins to pick and carve, and spooky adventures through the freaky forest. Hop on board for the Half Term on the Spooky Trailer Ride, for a journey through the Freaky Forest, where strange sights and spine-tingling surprises await! There are also the pumpkin carving workshops.
Dates & Times: Pumpkin Picking: 11th, 12th October and 18th to 31st October 2025, hourly slots: 10am-3pm. Spooky Trailer Ride: 18th to 31st October 2025. Pumpkin Carving Workshops: 23rd to 26th October 2025.
Prices: Pumpkin Picking: £6 – one car up to 8 people, Spooky Trailer Ride: £2.50, Child – under 18 months: Free, Pumpkin Carving Workshops: £7 – includes the pumpkin to carve.
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Meopham PYO Pumpkin
Also in Gravsend, the Meophham PYO event at Broomfield Fruit Farm, you can pick pumpkins, apples and pears. No booking needed. Plus, enjoy a BBQ at the weekend.
Dates & Times: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 2025, 10am-4pm
Price: Free entry, Pumpkins: 75p per kg
🐶 Welcome, on a short lead, and keep off the crop areas.
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FAVERSHAM PUMPKINS
At Saffery Farm in Faversham, there’s plenty of pumpkins to pick.
Dates & Times: 18th to 26th October 2025, 10am to 4pm.
Price: Car: £4, Pumpkins: From £1.
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PYO PUMPKINS IN ROMNEY MARSH
Pick your own pumpkins at Pumpkin Fun at Marsh Maze & Fun Yard in Romney Marsh and enjoy the usual funyard activities, excluding the water fight arena. Choose from thousands of pumpkins as you walk through the pumpkin patch.
Dates & Times: 12th to 31st October 2025, 10am-4pm.
Price: Entry £1, Pumpkins: £varies
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At the pumpkin patch at Lime Tree Farm in Romney Marsh, there’s a pumpkin house, displays including the tractor and trailer display (pictured), for Halloween fun for the whole family!
Dates & Times: October 2025, Daily, 9am-5pm.
Price: Free entry – Donations welcome for Pilgrims Hospices. Pumpkins: From £1.
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MAIDSTONE’S PYO PUMPKINS
Pumpkins & Farm Animals
Throughout the month, head to Maidstone to Milebush Farm for PYO fun with a variety of sizes. Farm animals to see on site, too!
Dates & Time: From 4th to end October 2025: 10am to 4pm.
Price: FREE entry, Pumpkin: £Varies.
🐶 Welcome on lead
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Pumpkins & Flower Safari
At the PYO Pumpkins at Loddington Farm event, there will be games, a flower safari, and regeneratively grown pumpkins and flowers for picking! Plus, at weekends, there will be food trucks.
Dates & Times: 18th to 31st October 2025, 10am-3pm
Price: Entry, £1 – booking fee will apply
🐶 Welcome, on lead
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SANDWICH PUMPKIN PATCH
At the Delf Farmshop & Nursery Ltd, you can visit their pick-your-own pumpkin patch. No booking is needed, just turn up to pick and pay for your pumpkins! During the October Half Term, the dinky doughnut stall will be on site!
Dates & Times: 18th to 31st October 2025, 9am-4pm
Price: Free entry.
🐶 Welcome, on lead
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KENT MOON TRIO
At Pumpkin Moon in Maidstone, Rainham, and Faversham have a variety of pumpkins, squash and gourds, plus a mini maze with fancy dress encouraged.
Dates & Times: 24th to 31st October 2025, 10am-3.30pm. Gates shut at 5pm.
Price: £3.25, Child – Under 2 years: Free, Carer: Free, Pumpkins: £varies. Must pre-book.
Essential Details: Must pre-book
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TONBRIDGE PUMPKIN PATCH
A great variety of pumpkins and squashes is available at this pumpkin patch event at the Spadework charity PYO pumpkin events. On selected dates, you can also PYO pumpkins by torchlight. Price: Free entry for PYO Pumpkins, prices of pumpkins vary. T
Dates & Times: 6th to the 31st of October 2025, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm, Sunday 10 am to 4pm.
Price: Free entry, pumpkins vary
🐶 Dog Friendly – in outside areas
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TUNBRIDGE WELLS PUMPKINS
Festival of Pumpkins
At the Pumpkin Festival at Lower Ladysden Farm in Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells, you can pick your own at this family-run farm. There are funfair rides, face painting and lots more family fun. Also, enjoy the atmospheric lights around the field and take in the spooky ambience of using only torchlight at their Pumpkin Nights.
Pick Your Own
Dates & Times: 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th and 18th to 28th October 2025
Price: From £3.09, Child – 3 years and under: Free Under 3 years: Free. Pumpkins: £varies. Some extra activities may incur additional fees
Pumpkin Nights
Dates & Times: 11th and 18th October 2025, 6pm-8pm
Price: £5.76
🐶 Dog Friendly – keep on lead
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Scarecrow Trail
At the Four Winds Farm, you can find a wide variety of colours and types of pumpkins. At the farm in Tunbridge Wells, you will find plenty of fun for the whole family – there’s also a scarecrow hunt and face painting.
Dates & Times: 18th to 26th October 2025, one-hour sessions on the hour: 10am-3pm.
Price: £2 per vehicle. Booking fees apply. Pumpkins: From £2.50-£15. Must pre-book.
🐶 Dog Friendly only in grassy areas, not in the pumpkin field
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BE BEWITCHED IN BIRCHINGTON
If you dare head down to the Spooky Woods and the Bewitched Pumpkin Picking Patch and the Slime Blaster Express at Quex Adventure Farm Park with The Trick or Treat Trail! A ticket includes a whole lot of spooktacular fun with the trail, a Halloween treat, a pumpkin for each child, a ride on the Slime Blaster Express. You can also visit the Quex Adventure Farm Park Facilities (weather dependent).
Dates & Times: 18th to 26th and 31st October 2025, sessions from 10am to 7pm
Price: Flexi/Saver* – Flexi/Saver*: Adult: £8.50/£6.50m Child – 1 years +: £22.95/£20.95, Carer: £5.90/£5.90. Booking fees will apply
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PYO IN ROCHESTER
Booking is essential for PYO Pumpkins at Beluncle Farm in Hoo for pumpkins and photo spots for a family fun experience.🎃
Dates & Times: 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th to 21st, 23rdto 26th, and 28th to 31st October 2025, 10am to 3pm
Price: Car – up to 6 people: £10, Minibus: £15. Pumpkins: £1-£15. Booking fees will apply.
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PUMPKIN PATCH IN DARTFORD
At Stanhill Farm, they offer a wide range and various sizes of pumpkins to choose from, with lots of photo opportunities amidst this sea of autumnal, orange colours. Perfect for those social media shots.
Dates & Times: 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th and 18th to 30th October 2025. Monday to Saturday: 9:30am-3.30pm and Sunday: 10.30am-2.30pm.
Price: Car: £6, On foot: £6 – Up to eight people in car or in group
1 Wheelbarrow full – as many pumpkins as you can fit in, while still being able to push it: £37
Pumpkins: £1 to £15.
Advisory Notes: Must pre-book.
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PUMPKIN PATCH IN DEAL
In Deal, pick your own pumpkins at the Felderland Pumpkin Patch. There are thousands of pumpkins and squash to pick, plus lots of fun with a playground, straw bales, with family photo opportunities. Also, on selected dates, Bizzielizzie facepainting will be visiting.
Dates & Times: 18th to 31st October 2025, 10am-4pm – last session 3pm.
Price: Adult: £3, Child – 2 to 12 years: £2, Child – under 2 years: Free. Pumpkins: From £2.
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CANTERBURY PUMPKIN PYO
This Autumn and October half-term, head to the PYO Pumpkins Canterbury event at Hoath Fruit Farm.
Dates & Times: 5th, 6th, 12th, 13th, 19th, 20th, and 24th to 31st October 2024, 10am to 4pm.
Price: Pumpkins from £1.
🐶 Dog Friendly
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ASHFORD PYO
At the Pick Your Own Pumpkin in Ashford, pick up your pumpkins and enter the Golden Pumpkin Hunt! Find a silver or gold pumpkin for a prize from a wheelbarrow of pumpkins or the biggest one you can find!
Dates & Times: 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, and 23rd to 26th October 2025, 10am-3.30pm
Price: From £4 per car, booking fees will apply. Pumpkins: £1–£10.
🐶 Assistance Dogs Only
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BE PUMPKIN PREPARED
Wear boots and suitable clothing for wet and muddy weather, as the farmland can get messy! Advised to wear old clothing too. Also, pack some gloves as the pumpkins can be a little prickly! Be prepared for the weather, as usual!
YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO PICKING THE BEST PUMPKIN
But before you head out to the fields, there’s an art to selecting the perfect jack-o’-lantern-to-be and keeping it fresh. Looking to choose the best pumpkin? We’ve got the essential good-to-know details on how to pick up the ideal pumpkin, covering everything from checking for soft spots and judging weight, to crucial tips on aftercare and the best time to carve to ensure your masterpiece lasts well beyond Halloween night.
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Lasting Power: According to Pumpkin Moon, you can store pumpkin and squash for months before eating them if they are dry, cool, frost-free and undamaged.
Weight Matters: Heavier pumpkins are best for carving
Fresh Is Best: A fresh pumpkin should be solid to the touch. Avoid ones that have soft spots or sunken areas, as decay has already set in
Go For Green: Go for a green stem – this indicates the freshness of the fruit – look for a firm, dark green stem, and avoid those that look brownish, mushy, or dried out
Looks Count: There are a variety of shapes, sizes and types – think about the effect you want for your display, there are ones with deep ribs, bumpy skin, and all sorts of colours. Unusual appearances can make perfect pumpkins for your Halloween-themed display if that is what you are going for. Remember to check with the pumpkin patch regarding cooking and which variety is best if you don’t want to waste what you scoop out while carving
Tap It: The best pumpkins to pick have a deep, hollow sound when you tap them
Keep It Cool: To get the best from your pumpkin, store it somewhere cool. As soon as the pumpkin is carved and hollowed out it will only last for a few days, after this time, it will start to wilt and smell rotten. The more air circulating in your pumpkin, the better, and hold out from carving it as close to Halloween as possible to ensure your pumpkin still looks and smells good for the spooky season. Once carved, take it indoors or put it undercover, and rub petroleum jelly on the cut edges to last a bit longer before you start to creatively carve!
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Food For Thought
Don’t waste what you scoop out – there are plenty of great recipes for you to use all the parts, including the seeds.
ANIMAL CARE
Research shows that around 8 million pumpkins could be part of this year’s Halloween fun. Forestry England is asking people to ignore online tips and tricks telling people to toss their pumpkins in the woods for wildlife. According to a spokesperson, social media posts encourage people to leave pumpkins in the woods for wildlife to eat. However, pumpkins are not natural to the woodland, and while some wildlife may enjoy a tasty snack, it can make others, such as hedgehogs, very poor. Feeding pumpkins, or any other food in the forest, to birds, foxes, badgers, deer, and boar can make them unwell and can spread disease. Be careful with animals and pumpkins; leaving them out in gardens, too, can be harmful. Check out the Forestry England tips on what to do with your pumpkins post-Halloween, including face masks and bird feeders!
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