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It’s no secret that the severe California drought has had an impact on the size of fruits and vegetables. As Halloween nears, pumpkin growers are becoming anxious. Their pumpkins are nowhere near the size they typically are, in large part because of the drought.
Some farms in the Central Valley have ordered pumpkins from Oregon, where the crop is two to three times as big and much healthier looking.
“We are expecting probably in the range of 40 to 50 pounders,” John Moore, owner of the San Ramon and Castro Valley pumpkin farms, told CBS San Francisco.
The lack of snowpack and rainfall, in combination with the high temperatures, caused some pumpkins to ripen early.
