More infoThis year has delivered a bumper apple harvest, despite the drought and record-breaking hot summer, experts have said. The conservation charity puts the unusually abundant apple and pumpkin harvest down to a combination of weather factors including last year's wet conditions, the warm and dry spring and plenty of sun this summer. Although crops are ripening weeks earlier than normal after the sunny summer, the Trust adds pumpkins will still be good for Halloween with careful storage. Mr Arbury said: "Most people with apple trees don't know which cultivars they are growing. "This was followed by a dry and sunny spring resulting in abundant flowers being pollinated by insects and forming fruit.