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Whenever rice cropping starts my vegetable garden gets flooded. The water would come to the surrounding rice field outside my vegetable garden. So, to combat the flooding, I dug a canal that will act as drainage for excess water coming from the surrounding rice fields.

At first, and as easy as it may seem, and since I am just starting out in gardening I thought digging a canal would be easy peasy. As it turns out, I was wrong, I sweat a lot, my palm and fingers would feel the pain at dawn (I always wake up between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. feeling some pain in my palms and my fingers).

By the way, this is actually a very late blog. I was not able to immediately make a blog for this one because I am so busy with so many other things.

When our neighboring rice field started to irrigate their farm I already know that the next day the water will start to plow inside my garden. Also, when I start to irrigate our own rice farm additional amount of water will breach inside my vegetable garden.

So, to keep the water from getting stagnant in my garden I dug a canal. Previously, without the canal, water would stay in my vegetable garden for the duration of the rice cropping season. But when I dug a canal the water is flowing freely from inside my vegetable to a section of our rice farm.

Below are the photos that I took when the water from the neighboring rice field started to breach inside my vegetable garden.

A portion of the canal that I dug up next to my additional squash crops

Here's another portion of the canal that I dug near my tomato and black seeded string beans crops

Here's a portion of the canal that I dug up between my black strings bean and my water spinach

Here is another view of the canal that I dug up near my tomato crops

And here's the outside section of the canal that I dug up. This section will be the one that sends the excess water to a section of our rice farm

While I am writing this blog, the water is freely flowing from inside my vegetable to a section of our rice farm which is just outside my vegetable garden. But there are certainly improvements to be made, more on that later on the coming blogs about my vegetable garden.

Crops Video Tour

A few weeks back I posted about some development on my tomatoes crops and now here's another update to my tomato crops where the fruits are nearing harvest time. In this video tour and update, I also included my eggplant (for the first time I believe) and my black seeded string beans (also for the first time if I remember it right).

First, is the video on my near harvesting tomato crops, take a look at the video below...

Here's a short video tour on my tomato crops

Next up is a video tour on my black seeded string beans, take a look at the video below...

Here's a short video tour of my black seeded string beans

And here's a video tour of my old eggplant crops, take a look at the video below...

Here's a short video tour of my old eggplant crops

Updates on my Tomato, Black Seeded String Beans, and Eggplant Crops

I am happy to share with the community that I am close to harvesting my tomatoes. There are now a couple of fruits that are starting to ripen. But today, there are two pieces of tomatoes that I harvested because they are already ripe. And in a few days, most of them will be simultaneously going to be ripe.

I just can't get enough of these beautiful and delicious looking tomatoes

The first harvest on my tomato crops, isn't they look delicious?

Just like with my tomato crops, I am also happy to share with the community an update of my black seeded string beans which are now ready to be harvested and still bearing some flowers.

My black seeded string beans are still bearing flowers while there are yields that are ready to be harvested.

These beans can be eaten while it is soft and green or let them mature into brown-colored string beans where the seeds are separated to be cooked as black beans.

Black seeded string beans flowers

Below are some images of the beans while they are still green and young. I harvested some today because I am going to cook a local stew for my family to eat (will be partnered with rice).

Black seeded string beans yield

Some of the black seeded string beans that I harvested

Last but not the least, I am also happy to share with the community my old eggplant crops. I say old because I already harvested fruits on them before I even started to join this amazing community.

The good thing about these eggplant crops is they keep on bearing fruit if it is watered continuously.

I already lost track of how many times I harvested on my eggplants crops.

Here are some images of my old eggplant crops

Some eggplants that I harvested

That is all for now, see you on my next vegetable gardening blog. Keep safe.

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I am a Computer Engineer, blogger, farmer, father, and husband. I love countryside living, nature, farming (rice/vegetables), and has two decades of experience as an I.T. professional