Pumpkins

[KTurner]

What do you do with pumpkins that were used for decorating, after you take them down to put up the Christmas decorations? We're trying to roast the seeds right now. We burnt the first batch but they seemed promising. What about the rest of the pumpkin?

Keith

 

[MIKE R]

Throw it in the bush for the deer to eat or rot.

 

[tractchores]

I break them open with the fel and the deer and squirrels eat them. If they're carved its very satisfying to shoot or throw them....

 

[Clint S]

I make pumpkin pie and pumpkin rolls with mine. Save some of the seeds to plant next year.

 

[Pete Judd]

Hogs and chickens will eat them up as well. Or as others have said, the deer and other critters will eat them, or add them to the compost pile.

 

[Reyer Farms]

The seeds seasoned up and baked are mighty good almost addictive! The rolls that were already stated are also good!

 

[bcjmmac]

You can eat them the same as any squash. We bake them in the oven, then freeze the flesh in 2 cup portions, which are used for pies, pumpkin pudding, cakes, etc. I keep the seeds from the best examples for the following years crop.

 

[forgeblast]

We shot them. Its a whole lot of fun using lead to make pumpkin pie!

 

[sjerden]

Here's what I did with them last weekend.

Our Mennonite neighbor across the road raises about 10 acres of these every year. I dumped about 3 of these buckets full in the back of the property.

 

[JDgreen227]

I raised pumpkins for the first time this year so my brother's daughter could use them for decorations at the church and reception for her wedding...after they were done I set them out back in the field so the guys who hunt on my property could break them open and use them for deer bait.