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Why Order from Us?

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...

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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 or nomenclature 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!