Every fall display ends the same way. Softening pumpkins, a straw bale that's taken three weeks of rain, corn stalks to carry to the curb; and a November Saturday spent on it.
Season Removal hands that job to us. It's $95 to $275 depending on package and it's chosen at checkout, not later.
What we take
Everything we delivered — pumpkins, gourds, straw bales, corn stalk bundles, and anything that came with your add-ons. We arrive during the week you picked, clear it out, and leave the porch empty.
What we don't
Four exclusions, and they're the kind you'd rather hear now:
- Carved pumpkins. Once cut, they break down into something different, and something messier. If you carve, that one stays yours.
- Rotting material that's past being handled as a whole piece.
- Pest-infested material, for the same reason.
- Anything we didn't deliver. Your wreath, your planters, the pumpkins from the farm stand.
There's a location rule as well. We clear the delivery property; if pieces have migrated to a cabin, a second home, or a friend's porch, those are outside the service.
You pick the week
Add Season Removal at checkout and you're asked immediately which week you want. There are two, and they're the same in every market.
The week after HalloweenThe porch is clear well before Thanksgiving and you skip the stretch where the display is visibly past its best.
The week after ThanksgivingThe display carries through November, which keeps the entry from going bare while people are coming and going for the holiday.
You don't need to be home for either one, as long as we have the same clear access we needed on delivery day.
Why this gets decided in August, not November
The week is locked in when you order. That feels premature — you haven't even received the display yet and we're asking when you'd like it taken away — but the alternative is sorting it out in November, when the pumpkins have gone soft and the motivation has gone with them.
Plan for it up front if any of this is true:
You don't own a truckA full Manor or Estate display is not a car-trunk job. Even The Classic is 2 straw bales, 2 corn stalk bundles, and 42 to 54 pumpkins and gourds.
Your city has rules about yard wasteBulk seasonal material isn't always accepted curbside and the rules differ across our markets. Better to know before you're standing in the driveway with a bale.
Lifting is the issueWet straw is considerably heavier than dry straw, and by November it will be wet.
You'd simply rather notWhich is reason enough.
If you'd rather handle it
Disposal is yours, and there are decent options.
Compost the pumpkins and gourds, breaking them up first; whole pumpkins take a long time. Use the straw as garden mulch, where it breaks down over the winter and does real work on beds. Corn stalks go to yard waste if your municipality takes it. And several pumpkin composting drop-offs run across our markets in early November — worth a search in your city.
What not to do is leave it up through the winter. Wet straw and collapsed pumpkins stain concrete and wood, and by February you're looking at a considerably worse job than the one you skipped in November.
Season Removal is $95 to $275 by package, added in one click at checkout.