Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast, the Atlas of Deadly Plants, Minnesota series, part six.

Yes, Halloween is close, people. And in this mini episode, I'm going to be talking about where I go when I'm looking for spooky satisfaction,

when I want a good spooky story.

And it reminds me, Halloween is tomorrow, I do need to go and buy some sweeties, as we

traditionally call them here in the UK. Candy, that's an

Americanism we try to avoid, although I think probably most people do call it candy these days.

Where I live is very, very big on trick or treating because we get people, I've seen people

arriving in taxis with their children to come and trick or treat

in the part of town that I live in, which is actually a really lovely reflection of the fact that

it's a nice neighbourhood for trick or treating and very welcoming. And there's always lots of sweeties

to be harvested by the children. Extra brownie points if you've got a really cool costume.

And, you know, like the rule is if you see a lit pumpkin outside someone's house

and decorations, then you know you can go and knock on that door.

But if there's no lit pumpkin, you don't.

So that means people who don't want to be disturbed on Halloween or if somebody's

not into Halloween for any number of different reasons aren't disturbed. And that actually works

really well. I don't usually dress up for Halloween. If I was going to dress up, I think if I had the

time and could make the effort, I think I would love to dress up

as a string of pearls because that is the ultimate plant nightmare, right? But it would be cool

to dress up as one. You know, I'd have like a pair of braces with a terracotta pot kind of attached

and then make the string out of green pom-poms and have loads of those

coming down the outside. It'll be so much fun to do, but yeah, not going to happen because I'm not

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