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\"Pumpkin

“Green Man” Pumpkin<\/p><\/div>\n

It never occurred to me to decorate a pumpkin at Halloween any other way than carving it, but Melissa from the Empress of Dirt blog recently published a post calling for entries to a pumpkin decorating competition<\/a> where pumpkins are\u00a0embellished rather than sculptured and it seems such a great idea.<\/p>\n

\"PumpkinIf you\u2019ve ever carved pumpkins you\u2019ll have noticed how quickly they go mouldy inside, yet when they’re left in one piece they\u2019ll last for months, which is great if you’re wondering what you can cook up after the festive season that’s\u00a0cheap, cheerful and healthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We usually carve one or two pumpkins at Halloween to hold tea lights on the windowsills, but I\u2019ve friends and neighbours with several dotted around their homes and gardens. That\u2019s a lot of pumpkin flesh to use up or freeze at a busy time of year. Embellishing the pumpkins can give you the best of both worlds – a decorated squash in October that you can eat at Christmas.<\/p>\n

If you like the idea of creating a piece of pumpkin art and trying something different this year, Melissa has lots of examples that you can find here <\/a>to give you some ideas.<\/p>\n

\"PumpkinI opted for a natural, \u2018green man\u2019 look with the giant community garden squash that will be on display at Savour Kilkenny\u00a0(using a glue gun to stick everything to the pumpkin).<\/em><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re in Kilkenny this weekend and would like to see it, the Kilkenny Community Garden Network will have a stand in the Leader Partnership marquee on Sunday, where we\u2019ll be selling this seasons chutneys and jams, made by the gardeners from produce mostly sown and grown in Callan community garden this year.<\/p>\n

I was planning to make an autumn door wreath but haven\u2019t managed to, yet this seems to make up for it. Our eldest daughter wasn’t so keen on my ‘green’ pumpkin as she couldn\u2019t see its orange skin behind the leaves but Mr G loved it as he’s always been a Green Man fan.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Could you be persuaded to hang on to your pumpkin a bit longer, embellish it and perhaps make a soup from its flesh or roast the seeds<\/a> in a couple of months time, or are you a carving traditionalist, something that was after all, supposed to have originated in Ireland<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We can carve them or decorate them to create a bit of pumpkin art, but what do you do with yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[563],"tags":[751,926,1973,757,758,1852],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nPumpkin Art - Time for Something Different?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We can carve them or decorate them. 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