This Halloween, I carved my first organic pumpkin from my garden. This pumpkin was a ‘volunteer’ from the compost from last year where the seeds didn’t quite cook enough and still had their ability to grow. It started off as a seedling around another tree and we transplanted it to it’s own space.
I have to admit that it was a lot of fun watching it grow from a little plant into a nice 16 pound pumpkin. My daughter and I harvested it the day before Halloween and scooped out the ‘guts’. what was interesting is that as we were scooping out the seeds we noticed several of them had actually sprouted inside the shell. these are definitely some hardy seeds!
Now, we could have done some of the cool designs that I see every year where people spend way too much time creating works that Michael Angelo would be proud of, but as I am lucky to even get around to carving the pumpkin in the first place, I figured simple was better. We didn’t use any fancy tools like you’ll find here:
What we did do, was put down newspaper and used a sharp knife. That was easy, quick, and we still had a lot of fun!
