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.
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.