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VIDEO: Pumpkin artists offer tips on carving great designs — that last

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When you carve a pumpkin, do you cut the top off first? Do you ever wash your pumpkins? If you do, and you don’t, then you’re not giving your jack-o-lantern the best chance of enduring all the way until Halloween night.

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Scary Tales of Pumpkins

This Halloween may have far fewer plump delicious pumpkins. According to this humorous report by David Hammond, this year’s weather has given birth to a bumper crop of haggard, and even scary, squash.