Comments regarding Gardener's Choice

Waited over 4 weeks to receive Blueberry plants. Received partial shipment of 4 very small barely alive plants Three phone calls later, finally received another partial shipment, plants were all dead. Each plant was only one small dead bare root about an inch long BUYER BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!! Also at this point can't get through to their customer service, have been on hold for 15 minutes. Paid $46.15 for 10 plants 6 of which were DOA. DO NOT buy from this company. They should be shut down!!!!!

I only wanted the by three get three free and hit a 2 on the first screen which I thought was for the 2 I wanted. All the sudden the order was complete. I did not get to review and then submit my order. I called them asap and was told to wait 24 -48 hours as the order was not in the system. I waited 24 hours and the order has been processed (funny on the website it says in processing). They will not cancel the order. I was told to refuse the order. How long will it take to get my money back? The shipping came to $35.80 that is crazy I would like them to prove to me it cost that much to ship this. The two extra tomato packs were $60.00 for a total order of $105.80 and I was only going to spend around $26.00. DO NOT GO TO THEIR WEBSITE!!

BUYERS BEWARE !! GARDENERS CHOICE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A SCAM TO GET YOUR MONEY. THEY ADVERTISE THESE GREAT PLANTS AND WHEN YOU RECEIVE THEM THEIR EITHER DEAD, SEED, NOT PLANTS AND ITS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTACT THEM. I ORDERED 2 TREE TOMATOES, 2 POPLAR TREES, 2 EMPRESS PAULOWNIA TREES AND A BANANA TREE. I RECEIVED A BOX 4 FEET LONG BY 4 INCHES WIDE AND WHEN I OPENED IT THERE WAS 2 -3 INCH ROOTS IN IT. THE POPLAR TREES!! A WEEK LATER I RECEIVED A BOX 1 FOOT LONG AND 6 INCHES WIDE THAT CONTAINED 3 SQUARE TUBES. 1 TUBE HELD MY 2 DEAD TREE TOMATOE PLANTS AND THE OTHER 2 TUBES CONTAINED MY EMPRESS PAULOWNIA TREES. THEY ARE ACTUALLY ALIVE! NO BANANA TREE YET BUT I'M STILL HOPING. I PAID $7.95 FOR SHIPPING AND HANDLING SO I COULDN'T HELP BUT NOTICE THE POSTAGE ON THE BOXES. THE 4 FOOT BOX WITH THE 3 INCH ROOTS COST $1.50 AND THE 1 FOOT BOX COST .87 CENTS SO THAT MEANS THEY CHARGED $5.58 TO PACK 2 ROOTS IN A 4 FOOT BOX AND 2 DEAD PLANTS AND 2 LIVE PLANTS IN A 1 FOOT BOX. IT SEEMS THEIR MORE INTERESTED IN SHIPPING AND HANDLING CHARGES THAN THEY ARE ABOUT THE ACTUAL PLANTS.

Have I ever been duped. Ordered the Tree Tomato and bonus on 2 Feb. April 5 I got a box with what looked like peat moss planters, but turned out to be paper mache. three each packed in plastic wrap. One of the sets were up-side-down. Somehow I had expected to be getting something other than seeds. I went back to the website and found that seeds were only mentioned in the "optional" video, and was nowhere in the printed material. I have germinated many seeds, so I moved ahead. I have a nice little incubator and use it all the time. At 78 F and high humidity, I expect tomatoes to sprout in 5-10 days. One of the planters sprouted two seeds, the other five sprouted nothing. After fifteen days, I decided to see what the problem might be. I sifting through the vermiculite starter soil, with a tooth pick, pushing grain by grain aside. I found no seeds, and no evidence of any growth anywhere in the starter packs. They got my $21 and I have two little sprouts, and I'm not ever sure what they are, since the packages are not individually marked. I feel like such a looser. That is compounded by another order I made with the company, also on Feb 2. That order has been delayed and delayed and delayed and now is scheduled for May 5 shipping (they say--and I have every confidence that that will change too). This company has answered none of my emails and every phone call I have tried to make I get the usual "your call is very valuable to us" intro to an apocalyptic wait and eventual disconnect. This seems more than inefficiency. It appears to be fraud.

Like others here, I too waited for weeks for "plants" to arrive (tomato/blueberry). I called twie and was told each time that plants had been shipped & that I just had to wait longer. They finally arrived today (April 10th. Ordered March 6th, they claim was sipped March 17th) and plants are dead. Not even worth trying to argue with them. Chalk it up to a "buyer beware" lesson.

Still waiting for my order. I have e-mailed them twice but no response. I'm in Arizona. We plant year round. I have just about begged them to go ahead and send my order as other gardens are WAY ahead of me. (they stated it would be sent at "proper" planting time). I tried to phone and found the phone busy all the time. I had ordered 2 trees which promptly died last year. They appear on my order on their website as "pending". I did not request a refund---thought it was the heat here. After reading the heavy preponderence of negatives on this company I don;'t know what to expect if my order ever arrives. I do know I will definitely NOT order from them again. Very poor service ---no customer service and no communication. happy to have found Dave's Garden website and know I'm not alone in dealing with this unreliable company.

First off , I ordered the " Giant Tree Tomato " plants .
When I first ordered the plants , I purchased the best deal , 8 for $18.98 . (shipping & handling was right at $25.00)
The ad stated : " Plants Not Seeds ! " In a little flower pot , just as their brochure shows on the same Item .

Well , I waited , and waited for delivery . Even checked the Growing season chart per state , and showed that my planting should have began already so I didn't quite understand what was taking so long .
I allowed about 6 weeks , about 8 weeks later they show up In my mailbox , In about a 3" x 6" cardboard box ( I believe that little china men packed the brochure , plants and paper in this tiny little box ) .

In the box were the plants ; every 2 , bio-degradable seed pod sucked in a plastic wrap .

With It , was a single paper giving instructions , the instructions were of utmost interest as they told how to water the SEEDS and to be extremely careful to not wash the seeds away .

I have tried to call their number : 1-269-621-2481 , over and over , option #2 Is always busy and option #1 just seems to hang me up from the call .

So the plants are guaranteed to bare fruit In 3 months , I assume It will be several more months instead.

I'm leaving a Negative review based on several key points;

1> False advertisement ; ref: Seeds Not Plants instead.
2> Poor customer service ;
eg. Phone Line #1 is busy from 0830-1630

Those are some very high dollar seeds , you see there's less cost involved In selling seeds and the plants were worth the high price had they of been starters as assumed according to their advertisement. That's higher than buying seeds off of E-Bay !

Ordered blueberry plants advertised on TV. Six plants received were sent in a 3"X7"X4 1/2" box, that isn't a big box. The plants are nothing but 1" rooted cuttings. When I spoke to their Customer Service I was told that I could expect production in three to four years. I can get a refund, minus shipping and handling which was $35.70. Part of the shipping and handling was for 3 FREE plants.
When ordering, which was a neat attomated but confusing system, there was no way to change the order once you got past a certain point. When I asked about the shipping charges I was told that it was what it was because they are live plants and require special handling. I believe the shipping charges are high because the plants are of such poor quality that they would still make a killing even if ever order was returned. I would never order from them again. I was stupid to have placed the first order. A RIP OFF.

I dont normally take the time to complain about such things but I hate to see others waste their money on this company.

I ordered the tomato trees that were supposed to produce hoards of tomatoes.
i had them right along side all of my seedlings so it was not my care, every single other plant i started grew just great.

When i made several attempts to contact the company they did not even acknowlege me or have the courtesy to respond

I'm very glad I read this before I ordered from this company.
Thank You all and thank you Daves Garden Watchdog!

STAY AWAY!!!
The people who work there are as rotten as the plants they ship. How the state of Michigan's Attorney General Office can let them to continue is madening, And writing them as I did got nowhere.....

My husband and I bought a new home last year so I had to start my garden from scratch. I ordered over $200 worth of plants, seeds, and other landscape plants.

With this transaction I discovered that there is a woman that shares my very name that lives a few blocks down from me. She received a package the same day mine should have arrived but there was no house # so the UPS guy looked for the name and gave her my plants! She called GC and told them of the mistake there never contacted me about it. She called them again days later and could not get anywhere with them. A week later they finally gave her my email address, phone # and house address. so she could "drop it off herself" WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PRIVACY??

Of course everything was dead when she dropped it off and told me everything. I was flabbergasted. I called GC and demanded answers and a refund for the dead plants. They told me that the plants were delivered on time and it was not their responsibility if the plants where not given water on time! Never mind the fact they did not include a house #. And they gave away my personal information to a stranger!

They refused to make it right so I disputed the transaction with my bank.

Terrible business! I would just as soon give up gardening before placing an order with these crooks again.

DON'T GET SUCKED IN LIKE I DID!!!
This company also has a Canadian division. I first saw the ad for Giant Tomato Trees listed in a coupon flyer. I decided to order 2 plants just to give them a try. The ad clearly stated that I would be receiving plants not seeds! However when the arrived I recieved 2 small peat pots filled with soil with seeds pre sown in them. I wrote back to the compay explaining that this is not what I wanted and that it was false advertising and asked for my money back. I have never heard anything back from them. I did start the seeds and they did both grow. The plants however were by no means giant (2 feet) they did produce a few tomatos but nothing out of the ordinary. I want to warn everyone to STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY! if it sounds too good to be true it probably is!

I ordered some bulbs and seedlings from this company way back in the early 1990's. What arrived was a sad little box of dried up things that never grew, even though I followed the instructions very carefully. It wasn't very expensive so I just chalked it up to my bad luck and did not seek a refund. I also never attempted to purchase anything from this company again...until today. I went to their website and tried to order a Golden Egg Tree, but I kept receiving an error message that the item could not be placed in the shopping cart. I gave up and then stumbled upon this site. After reading all the negative comments, I'm now extremely happy that I could not place my order with Gardener's Choice!

I ordered 6 giant tree tomato's and 6 big early's and when I finally recieved the planters and the seeds started growing ended up with 12 tree tomatoe's and 14 big early's. I have planted a garden every other year for about 14 yrs now and my garden is usually 1 acre and I usually plant 100+ tomatoe alone and always had good luck and had the neighbor's help us eat a abundance of tomatoe's and other vegatable's. I have always planted the same acre and always keep my garden area up. You couldn't ask for better soil. The big early's and giant tomatoe trees from gardeners choice all grew fine until they were 5+ feet tall and then they all drooped over looking as they were dying and the tomatoe's on the plants were small and the uglyest tomatoe's I have ever seen. After seeing thier add on tv I thought that I would try them on my year off from gardening and what a disapointment. They taste as bad as they look. Save your money and buy plants from somewere else!!!!! You will not grow thier tomatoe's like they show them on tv. !!!!

Unfortunately, I did not look for any other reviews prior to ordering my giant blueberries. So, I ordered about a dozen plants for $40 plus $8 for shipping. After about 2 weeks I tried contacting them and they had no record of my order. I finally re-ordered and they waved the $8 shipping charge. I eagerly anticipated the arrival of my blueberry plants.

When I finally recieved them, I was a bit surprised that the package only weighed a few ounces. They shipped me a dozen little twigs with 1-2 leaves on them. I planted them and they have started growing. A couple of them died already. I think they will take off, but it is going to take at least a year or two before I see any blueberries. For what I paid, you would think they would have sent some decent sized plants with some roots.

In my opinion the twigs they sent were not worth $40 or even half that and I did not have to pay the $8 shipping charge, but I would think that at least $6 of that is just pure profit.

I will not be ordering from this company again.

Recieved 8 giant toms and all are growing well. 3 tumbling tom, 3 big bertha peppers, plus a few other plants. All plants arrived packaged well and i gave them a few days to relieve shock from shipping. All plants are fruiting in a full sun environment. The plants all gave fruit within one month and I have already harvested red tomatoes from the tumbling toms. Could not be happier with the product.

Below is a copy of the email I sent tonight to GC. These folks should be taken to court for cruelty to plant life. They obviously care less for their plants than they do for the customers. To be fair, I will also post their reply and action to remedy.

Seriously, be careful if you order from these folks, their plants are not fit to compost.

Steve
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Dear Gardener's Choice:

First let me say that I have never seen such poor condition of shipped plants in my life. But after some TLC and patience most of the scrawny tomato specimens survived.

The "trees" you sent were not so lucky, I'm sure the spray paint you sprayed on the little twigs for ID did not help them much either.

I am very dissatisfied with the condition these plants arrived in, however I can only take issue with the 2 trees that were dead on arrival.

The weeping Japanese maple and the golden chain tree are both dead, and they need to be replaced or the money refunded. If you would like them returned or need pictures please let me know. If you decide to replace them, place include a little moisture for their bare little roots so they may live until they get here.

Please let me know how to proceed.

Thank you,
Steve

I mistakenly duplicated my order by hitting the back button. I called within 5 minutes and was told that nothing could be done until the order was in their system, approximately 24 hours. This was at 6:20 PM. I called at 8:30 the next morning (yesterday) and they said there was nothing could be done because the orders had already shipped. I should receive it in a couple of days. Later I received an aknowledgement email stating that I would receive it in 2-3 weeks. I called again this morning and they said I should receive it in 6-8 weeks. I don't know what to believe. Today I was billed $2.48 on my credit card for keydiscount1.com, never heard of it. It must have been hidden somewhere on their site and I didn't see it. I went to their keydiscount1.com and saw that they are one of those places that offers 50% discounts at different merchants. Not that I signed up for it but their trial membership is $1.48. Apparently this was duplicated too. If I ever do receive the product I am going to refuse delivery and dispute all of the charges. There is no way it should take 6 weeks for delivery. I can only believe that they told me it was already shipped so that they could collect shipping twice and charge me to return it. What a racket. A shipping charge of $13.90 for a 2 pound package is ridiculous to begin with. I should know that when shipping charges are more than the product it's not a good deal.

Ordered 2 empress trees form Gardner's Choice and to my surprise got them pretty quick and even more surprising they were alive and well. I ordered one from summerstone and to date they have sent me a locust Tree and four dead sticks. I am very pleased with my order from garners choice. The lady I talked to on the phone was quite pleasant (unlike the rotten lady I talked to at summerstone) and every thing that she said worked out perfect. Ill order from them again next year and I would have to say it was a pleasure doing business with Gardner's choice after the night mare of dealing with summerstone. That's it

Cannot even express my rage that this company is allowed to do business. I (thankfully) only ordered three small trees, but they are WEEKS past due now, and every time I call I get a different answer..... their customer service reps are uniformly rude and slow, and they just (flat out) lie in an effort to end the call. When that doesn't work, they just hang up. There is never any "supervisor" one can escalate to, and if you ask to speak to a different department (like shipping or accounting) they will say "they're all gone for the day" (even at 2:30 on a Wednesday... they will tell you there is no more stock on the same day you received an email from them saying they are OVERSTOCKED..... their "shyster-ness" just knows no limits, trust me!

I ordered and received a hummingbird vine from Gardener's choice but the item was delivered dead. I have contacted the customer service department twice without a response. This is not an expensive item but I will never do business again with a company that doesn't have time to even answer a simple email!

I like a few other people that fell for these thieves ordered one tomatoe plant that was about $9.99 , and was charged $61.85 , I have went to my bank , and will have to wait for 45 days ,but I guess that is better than nothing. I should have known better.

my mother and I ordered the giant tree tomato pack ( it said live plants but all we got where peat pots and seeds) . We only wanted to try them out ,so to avoid any stupid website mistakes we ordered over the automated phone service they have. well like a lot of people here , it screwed up , we ended up with over 300 dollars in charges ( we got a lot of pots lol) , just wanted 12 giants and the special ( 12 early tomatoes ) got 48 of each (omg) called them for a refund of the order and they said we would have to what for the order to arrive then call . The order got here in about 2 weeks but then when we tried to call them back we could never get a hold of anyone ( I guess they where busy getting more complaints) . as far as the plants go , I started 12 giants and 12 earlys and all but 1 giant germinated . in fact , in each peat pot ( which seemed to use jiffy seed mix or something close to it ) I had numerous plants come up. its now been 2 1/2 months and my giants are 3-4 foot tall and the earlys are around 3 ' tall . all of them are starting to flower , but at the least gardeners choice needs to fix their ordering service , and the postage was way more than normal , the box my 96 pots came in barely weighed 1.3lbs so why did i get charged 69 dollars for shipping? on the plus side my store bought squash and peppers are already producing , and I have 2 cherry tomato plants already 3' tall that I started from seed at the same time . If I really do get a lot of tomatoes from the giants that might make up for my loses but I would advice most people to do a lot of research before ordering from this company , they do seem to be scamming on their ordering process.

These guys are scam artists! I didn't place my first online order, so they emailed me with an offer for a $10.00 WalMart card. I bit... Ooops! On the last page I noticed that the shipping charge had more than doubled!

Too late, their scammy site does not have a confirm button, when you see the total, you bought the farm!

I immediately emailed them that I wanted my order cancelled. Three(!) days later I got a reply saying... Sorry!

Anyway, I am disputing it with the CC, and am complaining to the Michigan Attorney General as well.

I should have been more wary. Back to my local vendors, and Burpee, etc. No more TV ads... when will I learn?

I ordered 3 different kinds of plants from Garderner's Choice. All of them pretty much looked dead on arrival. I planted the vinca several weeks ago and it does not look like more than 3 plants out of 50 might live. The butterfly bushes were just sticks and show no signs of life since planting several weeks ago. Pretty much a waste of money. I did not pursue a refund - too much trouble to deal with for the money. Would not order anything from them ever again.

I wish that I had researched Gardeners' Choice before I ordered from them, and I have registered as a user here just so I can add my voice to the other negative reviews. AVOID THIS COMPANY AT ALL COSTS! I placed an order on May 10, and my credit card was charged on May 13. When I did not receive anything by May 20, I called customer service and found out that my order would be shipped in another 2-3 weeks. I asked them to cancel my order on the phone with customer service, and via e-mail through their website. Imagine my surprise when the plants arrived today (June 2)! I have never seen a sadder display of vegetation in my life--the six tomato plants were already dead; the "giant" blueberry bush was a 2 inch twig in a ziplock bag with a tablespoon of soil; and the strawberry plants were a tangled mass of roots in a plastic bag. I want my money back but the phone system is down!

I ordered 2 blueberry "plants" from Little Giant Blueberries online through an offer that promised a third plant free for a total of $10 plus $8.90 postage and handling For the next two weeks, I kept finding missed calls on my cell phone (which I gave as a contact #) from an out of state number that I didn't recognize. When I finally was able to answer one of the calls, it was a representative calling to confirm my order. After confirming, the rep fell into this monotone indecipherable tone. I told her I couldn't understand what she was saying. She replied that she was explaining special offers to which I was entitled. I told her that I didn't want to join anything that required cancellation or a monthly payment, and she answered that she was just describing offers I would receive with delivery. A few days later, before I received my order, my credit card was charged $2.48 for a "shopping club" - I disputed the charge. The next day I received mail from the shopping club and a dining club thanking me for my membership. I called the customer service #, and they replayed the tape of my call where you hear me declining any offers. The rep credited my account the other $2.48 that I was charged. When my blueberry plants arrived, they were three twigs (2-3 inches in height with one 1/4" sprout of leaves each) in a small clump of dirt in a plastic baggie in a cardboard box that showed postage costing 79 cents. I emailed the company to ask where my other two "plants" were and also complained about my other experience. They said they would send two more plants to me, which I have yet to receive. To add insult to injury, I realized when I planted my original "plant," it was actually three separate twigs - so apparently those were my three plants. Hardly worth $18.90! And now mysterious charges have appeared on my phone bill for some monthly telecharge fee which I've no doubt is somehow related to this whole mess. Anyone considering ordering from this company should be very, very careful. I've never had any problems like the ones I've encountered related to this order.

I too ordered from Gardener's choice. I ordered the Tomatoe Tree on line. The site looks to be a quality site. I went to check out and a offer popped up asking if I wanted a particular plant in addition to my order. I pressed no, and another one popped up. "No", and still another, and so-on. After no, no, no, no, a pop up came on that said free seeds. Just click and you will receive them with your order. Ok ok, just get me to check out. What do you know? It was time to check out, however, no total. I continued to check out, and after I entered my creadit card number, and clicked continue, the sale came up with "$15.00 shipping for the tomatoe tree, and $15.00 S&H for the "free" seeds. $40.00 for a lousy tomatoe tree. I immediately called the so-called customer service line, and spent 25 minutes on hold, and never spoke to anyone. I lost my pacience, and emailed them stating to cancel my order. Today I received a box in the mail from them. All seeds. No plants. The web page specifically says plants will be shipped when seasonally appropriate. News flash! Seeds don't have to be shipped when seasonally appropriate. Lies, lies, lies. I called my creadit card company and challanged the charge. They are going to pull the payment back. I have returned the shipment registered mail so I have documentation that htey have received them.

Orderd Tomatoe tree ,, received them in about two weeks... Just like the other comments poorly wraped ,, but they did come up.. and haven't grown since the first week..over a month now..
Ordered hybrid grass a month ago and have not received them nor have I received any notice as to why they have not sent them

I ordered 10 Royal Paulownia trees. They are supposed to grow so fast you need a yardstick to measure it's growth in feet from week to week. What a joke! Plants arrived shrink wrapped and dry as a bone. They are supposed to be trees but are a green stem and only 4 to 6 inches high if that. I planted them right away in good soil. Within three days 7 of them turned black and were dead. They don't answer their e-mail and you can't get through to customer service. It's either busy or you just get disconnected when you push the "0" for help. Everyone need to report them the the BBB. They are ripping people off with false claims and not honoring their "guarantee" Buyer BEWARE!!!!!

Never waste your time with this company. I bought multiple plants to be shipped to my mother for mother's day. The website indicates that plants are shipped in accordance with their correct planting season. As it was a gift, I attempted to contact the company to see when my plants would be shipped so I could let my mother know. After sending MANY emails to their customer service department and getting no response, i was finally able to speak to someone on the phone after calling multiple times. The lady could see my order but could not confirm when it would be sent. She said it 'probably has already been sent' but said they kept no log of these things and refused to let me speak to the shipping department. She then hung up on me and said if my plants do not arrive in a week that they'll refund me my money. This company is clearly a scam. DO NOT BUY FROM THEM! My plants have still not arrived and it has been over 2 months since I made my purchase. This company needs to be reported (as I intend to do) to the BBB and closed down.

On March 22, 2009 I ordered 36 tomato trees from Gardner's Choice and I got them a couple weeks later...I opened a postal package with the 36 small cardboard containers (I thought I was getting growing trees, and I assumed that because of the high shipping cost), but was I ever wrong! ...The company charged me $25 for shipping and the postage was only $2.50....They were shrink wrapped...I immediately started watering them lightly every day and 7 of them started growing, but soon died, and NONE of the others ever started growing! I have sent emails and called them on the phone numerous times with absolutely NO response! In my opinion, they are a JOKE! They should be put out of business!

I placed orders in the past with them and most of the plants were dead on arrival ,never grow, I will never buy plants again from this place. Shame on them, people must go to US Post Office to see if they can file complaint for Mail Fraud. We do receive theirs catalogs by mail and all the product are guarantied by them.

I orderd the giant tomato tree by phone from an AUTOMATED line. It was so confusing, it kept asking over and over things to buy..."special offers" as they put it. I kept pushing the button for no, and it went on and on. When it was done, I never got a amount it would be or a chance to confirm my order etc. So I had no idea what was going to be charged to my checking acct. When my order came just 2 weeks later...I had 15 giant trees and 15 earl girl tomatoe plants! All it was were the little peat pots with the dirt falling out and who know how many seeds!For what I thought I ordered I figured about $40......My bank called to inform me I was overdrawn...I knew exactly why....this company charged me $79.95! Which caused me a $45 overdraft fee. So technically it has cost me $125 for what I thought was 2 orders. The instruction for planting we very poor...got no invoice to see how they came up with their price...not even a phone number. All I can say is I better have tomatoes coming out my ears! Will never do business with them agai or an automated system.

My plants arrived dead and dying. I emailed the company three times over a period of several weeks and got no response whatsoever. Today I filed a complaint with The Better Business Bureau. The BBB shows 708 complaints but still gives them an A+ rating because they DO respond to the Better Business Bureau. So folks, if you got ripped off like I did, complain to the BBB and you will most likely be offered some time of resolution.

I bought 4 lemon grass plants and 1 empress tree (which don't look like a tree looks like a weed) and ALL 4 were dead when they arrived in my mailbox They were in a box with baggies on them and looked pathetic for what I paid!!! I will NEVER shop with Gardner's Choice again!!!

To begin with, I only ordered one set of tomato plants from an automated system and the company charged my Bank Account $61.85. I called and complained and the company told me that the order came through as 3 sets and that they had already been shipped. Ten days later the order came in my mail. There was 5 sets of tomatoes and they were only seeds in planter cups. For that price they should have been plants ready for the garden. I am disappointed with your advertising and will be surprised if I ever have a tomato.

I was a fool fell for it back to back.
Ordered the tomato trees and big earlys without realizing it was for the nursiery seed packs waste of over $60.00 for 30 half empty planters as half the dirt was in the bottom of the packageing. Poor packaging there fault not reading fine print my fault.
Got there catalog with the wasted dirt and made sure i read live plants before ordering again for $115.00 for plants and tree's. Got the e mail with tracking # and 2 days later ups picked up the packages from gardeners choice. Tracked the packages and on friday found out they were only 50 miles from me but the delivery day would be the following Wedensday. So I called ups and they said they were shipped standard ground plus 2 days something I have never even heard of and I ship with ups eberyday for 20 years. But the plants and trees did arrive on Wedensday and the plants were all yellow and slimmy and wilted in there box, the tree's were all dried out roots and all in there box.
plants egg tree best looking out of the bunch, big jim peppers fair for a week in a box, mammoth onions wilted and slimmy, zooming zucchini half were ok, watermellon bush 1 nice plant out of 6, 15 plant garden cabbage,broccoli,cauliflower they sent 3 extra plants but all were yellow and nasty. tri star strawberries very small but should make it next year if not this year.
Box of tree's hotel giant blueberries 2 inch twigs, little giant blueberry again 2inch twig. Strawberry tree looks like a dead twig with no root system, cherry hedge row 2 12 inch twigs and 1 4 inch broken twig, black berries twigs again. grape vines drid out they once had buds but so dry when they arrived dont know if they will come back. Of all the tree's the only thing I have any hope for is the grape vines as they were the only thing that looked like it had buds in the last year everything else looks as they were pulled and packed for last years orders and just held over and shipped as kindling for fire starting this year.
I also ordered Blueberries and Raspberries from Gurneys this year, from them got healthy 12 inch plants with leaves and flowers within 2 weeks raspberries with buds and leaves starting already, came packed with moist shrededd news paper to keep the moist for shipping.
For now on will stay with gurneys and burpee seeds.