How to keep your jack-o’-lantern from rotting before Halloween

Here are some tips that can help your epic carving outlast the Day of the Dead.

For many Americans, pumpkins mean that fall is here. In anticipation, coffee shops, restaurants, and grocery stores start their pumpkin flavor promotions in late August, a month before autumn officially begins. And shoppers start buying fresh decorative winter produce, such as pumpkins and turban squash, in the hot, sultry days of late summer.