What @krmit said, they are not pollinated. You can ensure pollination by taking a tiny craft paintbrush (or some people use a q-tip or even just pick the make flowers off and use them directly) to pollinate the female flowers.
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It’s like a coy crossing of legs.
I’ve got to go plant out the raspberry canes I bought.
And I just replaced a failed washing line at the property with a new unit. Kept the old ones line to use as trellis/wire for the cane fruits to climb up the fence. Just need to work out how to attach it to the fence. I’ve got a bunch of hooks that may suffice.
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@CalBal Ok I’m going to try that. Is there such a thing as over pollinating? Like is it bad if I pollinate all the female flowers on a plant?
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As long as there is enough fertilizer it’s fine. Since you are growing in pots, even if you are using like a potting soil with fertilizer added, I would use a liquid fertilizer about every 2 weeks (or once a week at a diluted strength), personally!
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Hey,
Expert zucchini love guru here. Sounds like the female flowers (ones with the visible fruit) aren’t getting pollinated. I’d recommend picking a male flower, stripping the petals and then gently rubbing it inside the female flower. Get it all up in there. Caress it. Coat it with pollen. Best done in the morning when the flowers are open.
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Ok, one task completed.
Coho (late summer ripening) and Nootka (twice a year, mid summer and autumn ripening) raspberry canes have been planted, watered, worm wee’d and are sitting out in the drizzle.
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Got out today, hit up Emerald Nursery, Diggers, Forest Edge Permaculture Nursery.
Came home with three raspberry varieties. Serpells Willamette (early summer cropping, “thornless”), Chilliwack ( summer and autumn cropping) and Sandford (early summer cropping).
Also found a Black Chokeberry to go with my red and purple varieties.
And some Red Gem marigold seeds.
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Germinated half a packet of mesclun seeds with the paper towel approach and put them into one of the hanging baskets where I tried and failed with a direct sowing. The spinach again didn’t germinate in the paper towel, which again, not surprising given the age of the seeds.
Decided to try direct sowing the last of the mesclun seeds into another plastic container we had kicking around.
We had a second ripe strawberry, which I gave to the shadowy one.
Undecided on whether to try germinating anything else for a while.
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Xposted, because WOOT WOOT
I’m pretty pleased, the plants are looking quite good for only being in the ground a short time.
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Spotted this in a Mitre10 yesterday. Ignore the price tag, they got for over $100.
Don’t recall having seen one before.
Looks like it would sit well with other modern/Scandinavian looking self watering pot systems ala:
Edit: @aaronpk it looks like Instagram has changed the algorithm again redirect linking posts. Is that something you could look at?
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I entered a competition on the Organic Gardeningn Australia website to win one. I’ll let you know how it is once I win.
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Shoot! This may be a losing battle at this point, but I’ll try again.
Edit: oh yeah, this probably isn’t fixable at this point. The Instagram integration is 100% not supported by Instagram and they actively fight against this kind of embedding.
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Thanks for taking the time to have a look.
There was a big hail storm today. Send happy warm thoughts to my tomatoes.
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So, roof work is going on at my building and I had to move all of the plants out of the line of fire of shingles literally RAINING down on the backyard. They had to do some pre-work this past week so my landlord told me I needed to move the plants by last Monday. Most could go on the first-floor deck but the very vine-y and large raspberry bushes in huge pots could not be lifted that high (the first floor is raised, not quite a second floor but nearly so). So we dragged them under the first floor deck, it was literally the only place they can go.
And now the leaves on one of them is turning yellow. I assume from the lack of sunshine.
Is there anything I can do about this, short of providing it with the light it needs, which I cannot do? The roof work is going to go at least through Wednesday. Though they’re only working a half day tomorrow and I’ll likely drag it back into the sun for the afternoon and evening.
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You know those photos where adults recreate moments from their childhood, and a mom is now trying to carry a 130 pound daughter? This is like that, but with two-month old tomatoes.
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Thanks for the zucchini advice! I have several growing now 
will post pics when they are ready for 
What a beautiful family photo.
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