You and your friends went all out this year carving pumpkins for Halloween at your Athens Ohio rentals. Now you’re faced with a small hill of withering orange globes and wondering what to do with them. Here are some suggestions:
- The drying pumpkins make great compost. If you don’t have a garden, find a gardener who does. You might also look for a nursery or other commercial enterprise who can use your crate load of collapsing pumpkins. The idea is to keep your discarded pumpkins out of landfills by chunking them in the compost pile. Carved pumpkins, by the way, don’t work well for so-called chunking contests where pumpkins with thick rinds are hurled by mechanical means.
- If you were wise enough to save the pumpkin seeds before carving, be sure to roast them for snacks. The insides of the pumpkin can be pureed and saved to make soup or pumpkin bread.
- If you didn’t carve all the pumpkins you bought, but saved some for your Halloween display, keep them cool and you can also use them for Thanksgiving.
