Garden Bears' World - Halloween Fun

Hello everyone!  It's Endon Bear here with another little Garden Bears' World post, showing you how we made a Halloween Jack o Lantern out of the biggest pumpkin I helped Polar to grow.

Polar used a very big knife to cut the top off.  We could see that there was lots of tasty pumpkin flesh inside, as well as lots of seeds.  We have saved some of those to grow next year.

Once Polar and I had scooped out the seeds, Sonning started cutting out pumpkin to save for eating.  He managed to take out some chunks which were big enough to roast.

Then Hanley and Huddlesford took over, cutting out smaller pieces for using as pumpkin mash.  Look how much we managed to save!  Polar will be able to make all sorts of tasty things for us through the autumn and winter, as she partly cooked then froze the mash mix, and we had roasted pumpkin with our Sunday dinner.

Once all the edible pumpkin was out, Hanley and Huddlesford cut out the scary face.  They thought about trying to make it look like a growling bear, but decided the pumpkin was the wrong shape for that. 

And here we all are with our Jack o Lantern!

We were looking forward to making it look extra scary on Halloween by putting a candle inside it but Polar and Grizzly had a surprise for us - we were going away from home to have a Halloween adventure!

So our carved pumpkin just sat outside the front door.  We don't know if any human cubs came trick or treating, as we were away enjoying a little holiday with our humans, but we hope they saw our pumpkin and thought it looked good.  

 It is starting to go soggy now, so Polar will chop it up and put it in the hotbin to compost, so hedgehogs don't eat the bits as they can make them poorly.  And that means it will help to grow more next year!  Yay!!