Youngsters and their families have been heading to pumpkin patches over the past few weeks to get into the Halloween spirit.
Children from around Harwich and Manningtree picked the perfect pumpkins to carve to help celebrate the spookiest day of the year.
Here is our selection of pictures residents have taken from their time filling wheelbarrows with pumpkins, and some even dressing up as pumpkins themselves.
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