{"id":163297,"date":"2025-09-27T07:28:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163297\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:28:04","slug":"surrey-man-grows-giant-pumpkins-to-help-manage-his-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163297\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey man grows giant pumpkins to help manage his mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Peskett&#8217;s most recent pumpkin, which he named Abdul, has found a home at Tully&#8217;s Farm in Crawley, West Sussex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added the farm donated \u00a3500 to the cancer fund at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust in exchange for Abdul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust is where Mr Peskett is receiving care and treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I named the pumpkin after my haematology doctor, he was really proud when I told him,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Peskett says he &#8220;strongly recommends&#8221; people to do gardening as a way to help deal with mental health stresses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s relaxing, therapeutic and once you see what you have grown, it gives you a sense of achievement,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Peskett&#8217;s most recent pumpkin, which he named Abdul, has found a home at Tully&#8217;s Farm in Crawley,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-163297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}