It's interesting why we first planted Bon Appetit.  Well, it has to do with its name and the fact that the kids were learning French when we first found out about it.  Boy, that was a coincidence (if you believe in such a concept) that really worked out.  In addition to being really tasty, it has big ears and many customers love big ears!  It also is relatively early.  This year we made four good sized plantings of this top variety so we should have more Bon Appetit than ever.  Oh yes, translated Bon Appetit means "good appetite" which probably has more to do with its ear size than its wonderful taste!

We are now nearing the middle of our green and yellow bean harvest.  Over the years, we have had even more compliments about our beans than our corn!  One customer even sent a half bushel to Alaska to a friend that moved there and craved Magicland beans!  While we have grown, and still grow, a number of varieties of beans, our primary variety is a secret.  When a customer asks the name of the bean my wife sometimes says "If I told you I'd have to shoot you!"  It not only is exceptionally good to eat it bears well for us.

The other varieties of green beans we will have coming are Blue Lake, Kentucky Wonder, and a green French Fillet.  We also have yellow beans and a yellow French Fillet. If the variety is not named you can assume it's our secret variety! 

It looks like, as I speak, a heat wave is about to break out across Michigan.  No one but God knows for sure or how long it will last and He isn't telling, He's just hinting!  My winter forecast will come out in a few weeks.

           
Nashle!
Tom

PS: Why Nashle?  Well this means "so long for now" in informal Czech.  Despite my last name, all my ancestors were from Bohemia, which is located in the western part of the Czech Republic.  When my Grandpa (my dad's father) came to America, around the turn of the last century, he had to change his name because his original name began with an F and is not used in polite company in this country.  My dad only found out about this when he had to research his birth certificate for Social Security purposes.  Boy, that was a surprise and shock to everybody in the family!  My dad knew his original name wasn't Fox but he had no idea what it really was!!