Do we have a pumpkin thread yet?

[Soubriquet]

Now I know this is no where near as impressive as some of the skills on here but can I present Jack Skellington the pumpkin king

No one else?

Does this count?

I’ll allow it. Because of the gorgeous dog

Yours is fab soubriquet.
Here is ours:

• here are ours.

Haven't done one this year yet. Here's mine from last year

@soubriquet

Oogie boogie!!! I nearly did oogie boogie but jack was a bit easier

Vampire I did, and very proud of dd who carved hers without any help this year.

I haven’t done mine yet but I’m going to do this

Anyone got any tips on how to stop them rotting quickly once carved?

Wow these are amazing! Great thread 

Lemon juice is what I use to stop them rotting.

Ours are going to be done tomorrow, but I'm recreating this old one from a few years back so fingers crossed it'll look something like this:

Assumed too early, are we ok carving? Will they last till weds?

There’s a few tips on Pinterest to keep carved pumpkins fresh. One I remember is to rub Vaseline onto the cut surface.

This wasn’t easy...

Previous years offerings

Photo fail sorry...

No photo but I bathed one of mine in bleach one year and it made absolutely no difference to it rotting.
Think forecast is pretty cold though so that will help them keep their shape.

Please don’t bleach them

When you’re finished with them, pop them in your garden for the wildlife to eat.

They love a bit of pumpkin.

I’m going to be putting mine out a back track where there are lots of squirrels. I have a murderous cat so I don’t want to encourage them to the garden

You can’t let animals feed on them if they are bleached

@ipswichwitch That Spider-Man one must have taken some doing! Utterly brilliant!

Not great ones this year as we had 7 people carving so there wasnt much room

Ds2s is in the middle...little ratbag

Very tricky to take a picture of a lit pumpkin 🎃 & DH did most of it !!

Ooooohh Pretty....

MeOldBamboo it took ruddy ages, a fair bit of swearing and a medicinal gin after. That was the last year I let DS1 pick the design 😂