Why Should I Order Herb & Vegetable Plants through the Mail?
Ordering plants by mail order has been available to gardeners for a long time
and many well established nurseries only sell through the mail, just
like seed companies. This has always been the best way to get the
specific varieties of plants you want because your local nursery cannot
possibly stock all the different types that the mail order nurseries
can. E-commerce has become the easiest way to shop for plants from
specialists in particular kinds of gardening and for you to get exactly
what you need. Experience
Matters!
Over the past twelve
years selling plants online we have developed packaging techniques
which allow us to ship your plants without being damaged for almost 10
months out of the year. Our herbs and vegetables reach you within 3
days via UPS relatively inexpensively. Now you can choose from over 45
varieties of Heirloom and Hybrid tomatoes, 20 unique sweet and hot
peppers, and 45 types of culinary herbs! All are packaged individually
to prevent breakage and guaranteed to arrive fresh and healthy, as if
you purchased them from around the corner and in most cases, better
than around the corner.
Plant nurseries in
large department stores or home improvement centers are not grown by
those stores but by large wholesalers. They are not taken care of the
same way that the original growers did and the quality doesn't seem to
last long. Forget about unique or rare varieties of tomatoes from these
large wholesalers, they will stock what they have proven sells
everywhere. Good luck finding a salesperson who has answers to your
growing questions, because they most likely have never even grown
tomatoes or herbs before!
When you order from
The Tasteful Garden, we help and guide you all along the way with our
Growing Tips, Herb Encyclopedia, and you can always email for
questions. We teach beginners easy techniques to get started and also
show you how to garden in small spaces. We take great pride in our
quality and we make sure that you receive your plants the way we would
want to receive them ourselves. We even suggest recipes for cooking
with them! Order from us today, we guarantee you will not regret it.
Click below to read comments from some of our customers...
Why you should order from us instead of
our competition. (or The other company's fine print... enlarged)
We guarantee
our plants will arrive healthy and ready to plant in your garden or you
will receive replacement plants immediately.
Read the other company's
fine print:
Plants
become the property of the customer upon delivery to the transportation
company, and we cannot be responsible for loss, damage, or delays in
transit since these are areas over which we have no control. Claims for
loss, damage or delays in transit should be made to the carrier
directly.
What
this means to you is that if your plants arrive damaged or dead, they
can blame it on the carrier and leave it to you to deal with the
paperwork for a claim.
More fine print:
Problems
associated with the health of your plants must be made
within 7 days of the receipt of your order for you to receive refunds
or replacements.
You only have 7 days to let them know that your plants have a problem. After that you are on your own. We guarantee
that your plants will live and thrive in your garden if you follow our
instructions. Sometimes their plants look O.K. when you take them out
of the box but after a week or so can still die from lack of roots or
cold damage.
Yet more fine print:
We
make every effort to send you exactly what you have ordered. However,
if a shortage occurs we will refund the difference to you. Refunds will
be mailed within two weeks after shipment of your order.
You have the right to receive exactly what you ordered and be notified of necessary changes to your order before it arrives, not after. You should never have to wait two weeks for a refund of any kind.
Shipping costs:
If
you have ordered tomatoes from other mail order companies, you may have received tiny "plugs" or seedlings which are usually no more than 2-3 weeks old. Our plants are 6-8 weeks old and stems are at least pencil
sized to 1/2" in 4 1/2" square containers. They are generally from
8-12" tall and sometimes larger.
We
ship tomatoes in very large pots, yes, this adds to the shipping costs
but we believe that your plant arrives healthier and less stressed out
because of the root system a large pot can accommodate. Order from us
today and you will be glad that you did, we guarantee it!
time
and many well established nurseries only sell through the mail, just
like seed companies. This has always been the best way to get the
specific varieties of plants you want because your local nursery cannot
possibly stock all the different types that the mail order nurseries
can. E-commerce has become the easiest way to shop for plants from
specialists in particular kinds of gardening and for you to get exactly
what you need.
