This afternoon.
Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
Pumpkins decorated by children from all over Ireland displayed at the annual Halloween decorative pumpkin competition in the National Botanic Garden.
In fairness
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A very, very late breaking pumpkin carved on Wednesday by Dublin based artist Lelia Hoye.
A little slimy and probably fairly stinky at this stage.
The pumpkin’s holding up well though…
‘sup?
This afternoon.
The Dublin Hemp Company, Capel Street, Dublin
The Hemp Company tweets:
Visit our spooky shop to see our HUGE Pumpkin, carved with your favourite leaf! Have a Hempy Halloween!
FIGHT!
Helene Duffy writes:
We’re still carving our pumpkins! Here is this years Smithfield pumpkins plus a turnip.
LAST YEAR: Pumpkin Real Good
All ‘kin carvings to Broadsheet Pumpkin Challenge at broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
This afternoon.
There’s nothing left to carve.
Pumpkin farmer Tom (aka broadsheet social media manager Dylan] of ‘Alright Pumpkin’ in Meath writes:.
We have sold out of all our pumpkins. The crop was good but demand was about four times greater then last year. Crazy stuff last weekend. We tell people we’re sold out. they keep coming anyway to run into the corn maze…
In pumpkin news generally, UK crops are down 40% – 50%, Irish crops are not doing that much better.Pumpkins need plenty of warmth and water during the spring but when the fruit, yes fruit, is set and skinning up they need dry and hot weather, something that was in short supply this year. Supermarkets are not engaging in their typical predatory pricing this year, promising cheap pumpkins but expensive sweets, because supplies are short.
Fight!
This morning.
Alan McArthur writes:
Well they are definitely getting into the spirit of pumpkin carving this Halloween in Smithfield [Dublin 7] #pumpkincarvinggenius
Update:
The lads last night.
Thanks Emma O’Neill
All ‘kin carvings to Broadsheet Pumpkin Challenge at broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Elizabeth Laragy writes:
Carved pumpkin (dragon’s eye) photographed at Lough Dan by Laura Pfeifer for #WicklowHalloween
Staged but nonetheless awesome shots of squirrels taken by British photographer Max Ellis whose M.O. is to leave treats secreted in objects with which the squirrels must interact to retrieve. In this case, a suspended jack o’ lantern.