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[Pat Meadows <pat@containerseeds.com>]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:56:42 EST, you wrote:

>
>My experience with them exactly, and why I stopped buying from them. 
>
>Example I purchased a red California type grape from them that they claimed 
>to be winter hardy for this area, it wasn't.  Froze out two years in a row. 
>When I wrote them, they never replied. Their nursery must set in a micro 
>climate 
>zone 7 belt.  

>Have ordered from them more than once and will never again. Don't remember 
>the other problems, been maybe 7 years.
>

Our experience has been good.  They replaced things that
died promptly and without any fuss.  Maybe they have
improved.  

The things that died probably weren't even their fault:  in
one case, the UPS man left the package on our neighbor's
driveway although we were home at the time.  The package sat
there and baked all day - it was 95 that particular day,
although only May.  The plants were all dead.  

In the other case, I don't think we planted them right - we
were both really tired by then, and didn't dig a large
enough hole, and didn't use enough soil amendment (all the
other things we planted that day are fine). Our natural
'soil' is 100% heavy, heavy clay and things tend to drown in
it:  it holds water forever then eventually dries to the
consistency of concrete.  

Pat
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