Now that Halloween is over, don’t throw away your jack o’ lanterns! Compost them instead. You can chop them up a bit or you can just toss them in. Either way, they’ll break down quickly and help nourish your garden next spring.
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Of COURSE I’ll compost my pumpkin!!
Easiest thing to do–and I have had pumpkins with stray seeds germinate and grow new pumpkins in the compost pile!
I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile. My friend Lauren – another PCV – made a jack o’lantern from a huge orange squash while she was living with her Chilean host family during training. After Halloween, she saw her Chilean mom sneaking out every afternoon, looking around furtively and hacking a piece of the jack o’lantern off to put in the evening soup.