With lots of sunshine and weather that only has a bit of a chill, this weekend could be the perfect time to pick a Halloween pumpkin.
And if you like going to a pumpkin patch near your house, you鈥檙e sure to find lots of pumpkins to choose. So how do you know if you鈥檝e found the best one?
Well for one, size and color don鈥檛 matter at all.
鈥淭here鈥檚 so many different varieties of pumpkins,鈥� said Adrianne Dunn, who owns Montpelier Farm in Upper Marlboro. 鈥淚f you look into the field, we鈥檝e got white pumpkins and there are different shaped pumpkins.鈥�
So if one pumpkin is more orange than the other, 鈥渋t could be a different variety,鈥� she said.
Instead she said to look at the top of the pumpkin.
鈥淭he stem can tell you a whole lot about a pumpkin,鈥� said Dunn, who offered this advice: look to see if it’s “really nice and it鈥檚 turned a little bit, there鈥檚 at least a stem on it. Sometimes you can see that if the stem is real cracked or there isn鈥檛 much of a stem at all, you might not be getting the best pumpkin.鈥�
鈥淭he stem is kind of your telltale,鈥� she said.
Just don鈥檛 buy it too soon though.
鈥淭he sooner in the season that you pick it 鈥� it would have a tendency to rot a little bit earlier,鈥� Dunn said. 鈥淧icking a pumpkin a little bit later 鈥� closer to Halloween 鈥� and then carving it closer to Halloween would be your best bet.鈥�
