The journal
Notes from the season
Everything pumpkin, and the season around it, porches and fall displays, but also how they look inside the house, and what to do with them once November arrives. Written by people who spend the season picking pumpkins at dawn and on porches the rest of the day.
Seven porch pumpkin arrangements that actually work
The difference between a pile of pumpkins and a display is structure. These are the seven structures we install all season, and the rules behind each.
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Making a pumpkin display last the whole season
Uncarved pumpkins can hold four to eight weeks on a porch, or two, if a few small things go wrong. Here's what actually decides it.
A porch palette beyond orange
Heirloom pumpkins put a real palette in your hands, white, sage, slate, buff, bronze. Here's how to compose with it instead of just collecting it.
When should the pumpkins go out?
Our season runs seven weeks, the first week of September to the fourth week of October. Every week in it is a real trade, and here is what each one actually buys you.
How to stack pumpkins so they stay stacked
A pumpkin stack is a technique, not a gamble. The right varieties, seated the right way, will stand for the whole season, here's the method we install with.
The case for a pumpkins-only porch
The most striking fall porches share one trait: they stopped adding things. A defense of the single-material display, from people who bet a business on it.
Pumpkins indoors, done quietly
The difference between a house that looks like autumn and a house that looks like a holiday aisle is almost entirely color and count.
What to actually do with them
Carving is one evening and it ends the pumpkin. Almost everything else you can do with one lasts weeks, and most of it is better.
Ready when you are
The reading is optional. The porch is not.