Thread: How many pumpkins will you carve this year?

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We'll do 4 or 5. Usually 2-3 big ones for the front porch and a couple smaller ones in other areas of the display.

One real one, three or four fake ones.

I'm woefully behind schedule on my carving this year. Have a backlog of foam pumpkins that I need to work through. Some of which I had promised to carve for my wife, a few patterns just for fun, and then other jack-o'-lanterns to be placed around the graveyard scene.

As my son will be only 19 months old when Halloween rolls around, he's too young to participate in any carving of real pumpkins, so think I can forgo that for this year. (He does love pumpkins though. Whenever he sees one, he smiles and says "Pum", and has been known to wander off with the foamkins. )

Well, I've bought three so far, but whether or not they get carved remains to be seen. That's the one area of Halloween where I'm totally lazy! Pumkin carving was so much fun when my kids were little, but now - eh, not so much. I love having big beautiful pumpkins around all month though.

ZERO...very low priority for me

Too warm here. The pumpkins I've gotten in the past end up rotting before the 31st. May end up "carving" a fake pumpkin I picked up at a garage sale.

Try tipping a pumpkin on its side if they are rotting on you. Pumpkins grow in the field sideways and aren't meant to be stood up straight like sit them. Moisture builds up in the stem and it will rot your pumpkin.

I've done about 14 fake ones this year so far, with about 1 med. sized one left & about 4 small ones left.

Also, putting a thin layer of vasoline on the parts of the pumpkin that you cut will help it from rotting too quickly. I'll carve at least 3 pumpkins this year

I currently have 2 foam pumpkins that I need to carve and corpse, and one that has been corpsed and was just painted black this morning, currently drying outside. As for real pumpkins, I do not know the final number yet. Hubby has 7 or 8 on the front porch that will need to be carved but that number could definitely grow. He seems to find a lot of what he calls too good to pass up deals on pumpkins and keeps coming home with more. I just hope he realizes he is gonna be rolling up his sleeves and degunking them with me.