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7 Tips for Making Carved Pumpkins Last Longer

Don’t you just love carving pumpkins? It is so fun to cut fancy or scary faces into them, pop in a candle, and then set them on the porch to light up the night!

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7 Simple Tips for Making Carved Pumpkins Last Longer 

Carving pumpkins is a favorite past time of many, but the fun all seems to end once the pumpkin starts rotting and needs to be tossed in the trash.

Timing is everything if you want your pumpkins to still look great on Halloween

Timing is everything.

Did you know that you can reuse those silica packets that you find in new shoes?  Save them and place them in your pumpkin after carving it as they have preserving properties.

Reuse silica packets.

The longer the stem is on a pumpkin, the longer the pumpkin will last.

Look for long stems.

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7 Tips for Making Carved Pumpkins Last Longer

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