Harvesting a Market Friday

It's official: Fall is definitely here. The corn maze is back, pumpkin patches have popped up all over and leaves have already colored my world, in a most delightful way. My family and I went to get a pumpkin or two for the porch, which we will leave uncarved until the night of Halloween. What is Halloween you ask? Halloween used to be described as "the night before All Saints' Day" which is also called Hallowmas or All Hallows' Day. This is what we learned growing up, and somehow it migrated to a spooky, scary day of ghosts and goblins - right before my very eyes.
For your pumpkin: uncarved pumpkins generally last two to three months if they aren't displayed in the hot sun and it isn't freezing in your time zone. Carved pumpkins almost never last more than a few days, so don't carve them until right before Halloween.