Seedlings and wardrobe emergency

My pansies are being eaten by small soil-living slugs (despite being out on a roof balcony with a great expanse of hot tiles between them and the nearest patch of earth); almost daily when I lift the pots I find another batch nestled up in the drainage holes, and their tell-tale tracks are visible up above. ( seedling progress )

Another shirt has ripped in the wash -- not just the armhole seam, but a tear from it leading down the front where the cloth is soft and obviously worn out. Under normal circumstances I wouldn't even attempt to mend it, as it would require an enormous patch of awkward shape, and would in addition be very hard to find sufficient sound cloth to anchor it. But I'm running out of every-day shirts. ( Read more... )