Pumpkins are curved, flat, thin, and pliable pressed flowers and leaves that can be decorated with various materials such as cosmos, violas, pansies, daisies, asters, poppies, calendula, petite roses, and scabiosas. These flowers dry well and retain their color, making them perfect for adding a pop of color to any space.
There are over 75 ideas for decorating pumpkins using dried flowers, fall leaves, herbs, and homemade compostable glue. Other ways to decorate pumpkins include tucking in cool-weather edibles like ornamental flowering cabbages, kale, and bay leaves, creating topiaries, and mixing shapes and sizes to create visual interest and contrast.
To create a cozy fall decor, mix shapes and sizes, group multiple pumpkins together, and play with color. For example, placing smaller sized pumpkins on candle holders can create a Pumpkin Topiary.
For more creative fall and Thanksgiving decor, use leaves from your yard and create unique pumpkins for the holiday season. DIY mini pumpkin decorating ideas include artificial mini pumpkins, paper leaves, craft glue, gold metallic acrylic paint, and gold dimensional paint.
Fall wreaths can be created using mini pumpkins, gourds, and faux leaves. Start with a straw wreath form and tap a nail into each pumpkin and gourd to create a wreath. Nestle small orange and white pumpkins into the soil, add seasonal vegetables like kale, radishes, and eggplants, and use bundles of fresh herbs.
A step-by-step guide to decorating a pumpkin with pressed flowers can be found in a tutorial, which includes making the pumpkin, wrapping it with gauze strips, attaching two treats, and providing free templates at the end of the post.
📹 How to Grow Pumpkins in Containers (Even in Small Spaces)
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📹 PUMPKIN DECORATING IDEAS || FALL DECOR || PUMPKIN DIYS
In today’s video, I will give you all some pumpkin decorating ideas if you’re looking for some fall decor inspiration. These pumpkin …
First off, I love this article. I’ve tried to grow pumpkins so many times and failed. But, I have to say that I think its hilarious how the article started out with him saying that he just threw seeds under a tree and always ended up with a full pumpkin patch without doing anything, and then proceeded to spend the next 15 minutes going through all of the specific soils/composts/timing/bugs/mildews/etc. and everything that can go wrong if things aren’t done carefully. 😄 Here’s hoping I can actually get a pumpkin this season!
Love your articles, had an accidental pumpkin show up in the raised beds this summer. Delicious, when steamed, or fried. Pulled out all the dead anasazi beans, planting 6 different winter squash species in the nitrogen rich soul the beans left behind. How has the trellis thing worked for you? Going to try it this time.
Appreciate the time you spent here, teaching a novice gardener like myself I’ve gone nuts in my backyard Growing everything I can fit in, in my season that is Not just for my family, hoping to help my neighbours out too I’ll be perusal a few of your clips as my step to step guide on the do’s and don’ts As my garden matures
Thanks for a great article. I’ve been literally nose deep in the internet trying to find good articles on sugar pumpkins for the last few months and thank god I found this one. I was really worried when my female flowers were turning yellow and dying off when they weren’t pollinated, but now I completely understand, and I’m excited for the next one to open. How long do the females stay open, btw? I have school and I feel like I keep missing them when they’re open
Great article, thank you! Not wanting to waste them, I discarded a small variety of halloween pumpkins in a small patch of my garden for the birds to enjoy the seeds. Much to my delight they loved them, especially the cardinals. And now, even more to my surprise, I seem to have cultivated a small pumpkin patch. The spot is a bit shady but the vines seem to be thriving .. we’ll see! Perhaps, I’ll have my own homegrown pumpkins this year. Happy gardening!
Thank you for all of the comprehensive information. My daughter found a mystery seed in our laundry room and it sprouted this week. I have no idea what breed of winter squash it is, pretty sure it is a pumpkin tho. I’m pretty sure its going to be very late in the season and we may not be able to harvest from it, but we’re planting anyhow. If it wasn’t for this article, I would have chosen the wrong sized container. Unfortunately I’m going to have to string trellis it. Crossing fingers this works! Thanks again!
Lots of helpful tips, I’m growing my first pumpkins this year in a raised bed and I’ve learned a lot about expecations for them in limited space. Now I know adding mulch and realizing the realistic number of pumpkins I should keep growing will hopefully help me though the season. I’m attempting to grow giant atlantic pumpkins and at first I tried to get them to grow vertically like squash or cucumbers and I have found through various articles that I’m being ambutious to say the least. I have two growing now about soft ball sized fruit that I’m going to try and keep alive, but theres one growing above the main plant in a trellis that I think I’ll have to cut down and direct the vines toward the ground. Man, these plants are finicky, I had a lot of leaves die off because I think it wasn’t getting enough water consistently so hopefully the mulch helps. I’m hoping I can get atleast three pumpkins to get big from my set up so I can give one to my niece for her first halloween (she can have the biggest one) and save the seeds to grow them more efficeintly next year. Never thought I’d learn so much or be so invested in a plant, but the challenge is so fun.
Heya. Vimon Direksri (my wife’s name, I’m Ron) here. I haven’t forgotten about this website. My phone was stolen. I’ll eventually open a new screen name. Half my pumpkins have halfway died back. Time to get some more in the ground. Maybe not great for an outdoor pot but I bury about half a gallon or 1 g. of kitchen scraps under my pumpkins. Got the idea from David the Good 🙂
More of mine grew in straw than in dirt! I have a lot of large cannas. I cut some of those, chop them up, and put those in the bottom of my fabric pots, along with a little straw. I give it a day, then stomp on it carefully. Then I add the soil. Push the dirt in as much as you can. Wait another day, because you’re dirt level will drop. Add more dirt and your ready to plant. It works really well and uses a lot less soil. I love growing pumpkins, too!
Thank you so much! You’re a wealth of knowledge about growing these pumpkins and I really needed your help! I’m in Florida, where our torrential rainstorms have killed pumpkins grown in my flower garden for two years now. I never intended to grow pumpkins; they started from seeds after Halloween! Now, I’m determined to grow one or two…or however many survive. Going to use the 30 gallon container and all of your helpful tips. Thank you!
Off topic 😂 Do you or have you ever used Jadam or Korean Natural farming methods ? Minus manures I use strictly this in my garden or homemade fertilizers. My harvest isn’t amazing but I get a decent harvest even in basically beach sand. 100-150 meters from the beach. After 2 years of adding compost and mulch everywhere we’re doing alright straight in the ground. 😊
I planted some last year that glowered but i could not figure out how to pollinate. this time i double the amount of seedlings about 32 in all last year i did 16 an only 3 truely grew strong an well. I planted them in a 50 gallon horse trough with 2, 5 gallon water jugs that i refill when empty. I usually till my yard of all the weeds and random plants that grow from the spring time rain an use them as the first layer than place a mix of top soil, peatmoss/perlite, mircle grow powder (about 5 tablespoons) with some of the potassium bonemeal. The ground i have very sandy and clay like an does not drain well.(all my ginko tree lives well in it) Im excited maybe with year ill pollante them correctly if not they still make cool decorations for my yard. Here in the high desert the highest weve had is 113 (really rare) an about 60 at night lucky not to much rain. I hoping having them in a shad after 4-5pm wont do any harm. This article so helpful in things to watch out for very promising 🤞
When I had a large plot of land, I planted pumpkin seeds with corn seeds, just for the heck of it both grew very large and wide and packed that had a sea of pumpkin leaves, and trees of corn for the deer to eat. I had so many little baby pumpkins out here that my kids school that I had enough to give every child one pumpkin at mu son’s school. That’s like 300 plus. Now I have a smaller plot and I’ve been using containers. I tried pumpkins in the back corner, but didn’t work because there’s no airflow. I have this idea I might grow them against the fence so they have something to climb. I do have some volunteer growing the corners that squirrel dropped and I’m just letting them go for the heck
Ugh i didn’t know there was such a science to growing pumpkins. I literally just planted them into my Garden with soil and mulch. They are growing rapidly but when they bloom, they fall off. Ive just been watering them everyday with the heat being almost 100 degrees everyday. Hopefully i can grow some actual pumpkins. Thanks for the lesson it really helped
I grew a jack-o-lantern last year. It got to be about 10 feet long. Once it started flowering, the leaves closest to the root started yellowing and drying off. Also had two pumpkins growing. One fell off and the other got bit by a squirrel or something. I was so sad and discouraged that I just threw the whole thing away lol but I’m excited to plant another this June! I really enjoyed your article. Any suggestions on how I can prevent last year’s misfortune?
Ok It is my first time growing pumpkins. The vine is growing crazy I’m getting tons of male and female flowers but every single female flower has dried out and fallen. The vine is long but no pumpkin is forming the female flower does not even open to pollinate before it drys out. Should I be pruning the plant? It’s so big! What would you recommend for me to get a pumpkin.
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Omg Jenna! I absolutely love how you DIY’s these pumpkins! I’m going to have to try the one with the glue dots! BTW, just yesterday I looked up your old kitchen article and found the Cuisennart toaster oven/air fryer you have and my husband went and got us one like it. We are loving it. So thanks for that😘❤️😘🤗
Would you be willing to share the source of your dining table? I like both the style and color, plus the size struck me as a happy medium. I’ve been looking for something to replace our counter height table — after 15 years, I just want to be able to rest my feet on the floor again! 🙃😊 (Edited to say, the link to Pottery Barn wasn’t functional, so perhaps it’s not available anymore?)
OMG!!!! You’ve done it again – absolutely bloody fabulous 👏🏻 Love it all, just amazing. I’ve just bought a glue gun but would never have thought to create bobbles to get that look. Well I know now! Thank you Jenna for sharing all your great tips and tricks – I will of course be copying 😂. Really love your crafting articles, please keep them coming 😘🇬🇧
Great article Jenna, thank u so much for sharing, I have done the first one but I didn’t carve it or cut it out! I used an orange pumpkin w/ browns to give it a more rustic look for my pumpkins to go with my style n they are fabulous and it was fun to do, a few years back but I use them every year! Loved the ideas, happy fall! 😊❤️🎁💕⭐️
Jenna, I am a 56 year old mom of 3 grown children. I am new to your website and have fallen in love with it and your style. I am doing some major decluttering and part of that is changing up my decor pieces. Since perusal your website I have been inspired to buy decor pieces at thrift stores and paint them like you do. I also have been going to antique stores and have gotten some great finds. Thank you for all your ideas. I really like your “dupes” articles but really I like them all.
Hi Jenna! Again, your creativity blows me away! I loved them all, but that last one was pretty awesome! I was wondering if you had left a hole in the back and put either string lights or a candle in it if it would light up and what that would look like. Anyhow, all of these were so darn good! I loved the pattern one with the lodge lodge!
Hi Jenna, All 3 pumpkin ideas were awesome! It’s hard to pick a favorite. I love all three of them! I would have never thought to cut the top out of the pumpkin and added flowers. I loved the glue gun dots for the different pumpkin look. All are so pretty! You make the DIY look easy and your instructions are great. I’m really enjoying your website. Thank you for your dedication.