Pumpkin carving with power tools
Using a jigsaw to carve a Jack-o-lantern is a macho way to get the job done. Credit: Handout
Now that you've grown your pumpkin (or, in most cases, picked one up at the garden center), you have a few options. You can set it on your porch and be done with it, draw a scary, funny or happy face on it with a Sharpie or carve out a face.
If you decide to carve, you'll find yourself at another 3-pronged fork in the road: do it up old-school with a marker and steak knife, buy a stencil kit and go fancy, or take it to a whole other level and whip out the power tools.
Certainly no on can argue that using a power drill and a jigsaw to carve a pumpkin is a macho way to get the job done. But if you opt to go that route, you're going to need a pumpkin gutter attachment for your power drill -- and some guidance. That's why our friend Mr. Handyman has put together a step-by-step guide that we're sharing here on the Garden Detective blog.
