SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — It’s officially fall and this weekend several communities are opening up their pumpkin patches to the public.
In this week’s Flashback Friday, We go back to 1985 where Carolynn Hicks shows us how Sioux Falls residents pick the perfect pumpkin.
In the world of pumpkins there are all kinds, big small round and oblong the idea is to find the one that’s right for your front step. How do you choose just the right one?
Some people can walk right up to their pumpkin and know that’s the one for them. Others have to pick and choose but all the experts agree on what to look for.
“Something round like a picture, something like a jack o lantern,” said one pumpkin picker.
“I just want to make sure its nice and round and didn’t have big gashes in it,” said another.
“Things that I would look for is the nice shape especially a nice face on the pumpkin a nice big handle and then I like the large pumpkins rather than the small ones.”
Picking out a pumpkin is the easy part, the hard part is deciding what to do with it. Whether to follow the new fad of painting on a face or go with the tradition of taking a knife to it.
“What are you going to do with it,” reporter Hicks asked a young boy. “Paint it,” he responded.
“Well right now their at the age where they’re carving fingers more than carving the pumpkin so its a lot easier and its a lot less mess,” a mom said.
“Well I think our forefathers have been carving them for years and its a drastic break in tradition to paint them,” another visitor at the pumpkin patch said.
Whether they’re carved or painted, they may all be facing the same fate everyone seems to agree on what to do with the pumpkins come November.
