Hanging Pumpkins: An homage to Rhonda

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The beloved and quintessential Halloween movie Trick 'r Treat inspires and excites me about as much as burlap and a good hanging prop.  It should come as no surprise then that the first time I saw Rhonda's pumpkin bonanza my head literally started spinning.

I was already doing the "abundance of pumpkins" thing but OMG hanging pumpkins?!?!  HANGING PUMPKINS?!?!?  Now THIS I had to do.

It only took me about 5 or 6 years of solid porch swing brainstorming before I finally got it.  Commercially made metal plant hangers were either too expensive, not large enough or covered a lot of the gourd.  I picked up a couple  Kitchen Cooling Racks at my favorite kitchen supply store and then ordered some Metal Planter Chain of Amazon.  A couple coats of black matte spray paint on the racks and add the chain, making sure to space them out to keep the rack level.  The racks usually have feet - you can either have them hang down like feet or, flip the rack over and bend them out slightly and create a sort of cradle for the pumpkin.  This helps keep some of the smaller pumpkins in place.

It works out to just a few bucks per hanger and I like that they work with a variety of different sized and shaped pumpkins.  Obviously, the larger the cooling rack, the larger the pumpkin but I kept mine on the 8" size taking into account the weight of the pumpkin and what I would be hanging them from.

The pumpkin at the far right is hanging from the Camellia bush