5 Clever Ways to Recycle Your Halloween Pumpkins

1.You Can Eat Most Pumpkins

You can always bring any clean, uncarved pumpkins to the kitchen to eat yourself, of course! In any recipe that calls for canned pumpkin puree, fresh pumpkin puree can be substituted. Toasted pumpkin seeds make a nutritious snack. If you want to use fresh pumpkin, you’ll need to make a small conversion: You can get about 2 34 cups of puree from a six-pound carving pumpkin, which is somewhat more than a typical 15-ounce can of pumpkin puree. The inherently sweet, smooth flesh of some types, such as Jarrahdale, Hubbard, and Pie pumpkins, which are grown exclusively for eating, may yield more puree per pound of pumpkin. However, you can modify different pumpkin species to use in savoury or sweet pumpkin recipes. We advise consuming only the ones.

2.Pass Along Your Pumpkins

You don’t want to handle the pumpkins yourself, do you? There are several places that might take them off your hands, so don’t worry. Check to see whether you can donate them to farms, community gardens, animal shelters or zoos. The animal food or compost will be greatly appreciated by them. Look locally; some communities do pumpkin drives following Halloween, and some farms advertise for donations of locally grown pumpkins. You can also bring your used pumpkins to drop-off locations run by organisations like SCARCE and Pumpkins for the People, and they will compost them to keep them out of landfills.

3.Feed the Birds

Make a bird feeder out of your Halloween pumpkin to entice feathered friends to your yard. Simply split a pumpkin in half horizontally, clean out the inside, and add bird seed. Leave it outside in its current state or hang it from a tree by wrapping several lengths of strong twine or rope around the base.

The pumpkin seeds can also be included with your regular bird seed. Before adding the seeds, rinse and pat them dry. The birds will consume the seeds unflavored or unseasoned.

4. Create Compost

You should add pumpkins to your compost pile! They decompose quickly because they are primarily water, but if you split them up beforehand, it will happen even faster. Make smashing pumpkins a pleasant family activity; you won’t have trouble finding interested players.

Composting pumpkins is fairly easy. Just keep in mind to remove the seeds beforehand to prevent your gourds from rooting in the stack. You can preserve the seeds if you want to attempt growing your own pumpkins the following year. Simply rinse the seeds to remove the pulp, then let them air dry. Until you’re ready to plant, keep them in an envelope in a cold, dry location.

5.Play With Your Pumpkins

Even after Halloween is past, you can continue the celebrations with enjoyable activities that utilise your remaining pumpkins. Try pumpkin bowling by putting water-filled plastic bottles in a 10-pin triangle and setting them up. Turn your pumpkin into a bowling ball and compete to see who can break the most bottles. For a chance to launch your own pumpkin through the air, search for a pumpkin-throwing catapult event in your neighbor hood.

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5 Clever Ways to Recycle Your Halloween Pumpkins