Carrey Nalls: Hi, I am Carrey Nalls; I am at Nalls Produce in Franconia, Virginia. We are at the
Garden Center Farm Market and as you can see this time of year we are into
pumpkin business. I have been asked to show a little bit about some of the
different choices as far as pumpkins and how to actually carve one and make you
Jack-O'-Lantern for Halloween. There are lots of choices and it s pretty much up
to individual taste as to what you want to do. You got the traditional orange
pumpkins, you have got the white ones, you have got blue ones, flat red ones, you
use. So whatever you’ve got a desire to make, you can probably find a pumpkin
that will work with it. If you re going to – you’ve got to pick one as you like and
then when you are ready to go to work with it, that s when all the fun starts. I have
decided I am going to work with this pumpkin right here, which is about as
traditional as you can get and we are just going to make a traditional Jack-O'-
Lantern out of this that you would burn -- light with a candle.
The first thing you’ve got to do, you’ve got to have a work area where you can it s
going to be somewhat messy, so you’ve got to have a place for your trash and
you’ve got to -- the easiest way to do it is to have a surface that will support the
pumpkin firmly and where you can work at it and do the job that you need to do
without it. You know, the pumpkin needs to be somewhat sturdy, on the study
table with some stability. First thing you’ve got to do is have a knife that will
carve the pumpkin. If you’ve got a small thick bladed knife, it s a lot harder you
can try and do this with a stake knife would be almost well, you could do it, but it
really would not be easy. So, you’ve have got a knife that s sharp and got a blade
that s somewhat flexible that makes it a lot easier and you can do it in probably
half the time. The first thing you’ve got to do after you have decided what kind of
pumpkin you are going to work on and when you are going to do it, is you have
got to clean the pumpkin out, so you have got to cut it to go to work.
The first thing you do is start with the top and you open and you take the top out
of the pumpkin to open it up where you can clean it out, and then, but you don t
throw that away. So you carve the top open and you take it off, and you’ve got
some seeds attached to it, you trim this off to where you could use just as, put
back on the pumpkin, when you are finished. Inside the pumpkin you can see that
it s got seeds, it s got strings, it s got it s just all the natural stuff and that you need
to clean out before you can go any further. You’ve got to get your hands dirty and
you’ve got to take the insides out. Some people take the seeds and they dry them
out, they roast them, they eat them; some people put them out for the birds. Right
now I am going to throw these away and this is probably the worst job of the
whole process, but after this is over, then the fun starts the fun part actually gets
started. You see the pumpkin is cleaned out now and the top will fit back on just
like it came off. Now that the pumpkin s cleaned out, the first step we are bringing
it to life is, we are going to cut the eyes and trim nose and we are going to make
this a face.
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