Beware of this veggie plant company

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MistyMeadows Payneville, KY(Zone 7a) May 17, 2007

I posted this in the Garden Watchdog, but I think it is important to post here as well. If anyone else has had experiences with this company, please post here too.

On May 17, 2007, MistyMeadows Somewhere Over The Rainbow, KY
(Zone 7a) wrote:
We have been customers of Evan's Plant Company for 3 years; we never had a problem with the company until this year. We have had 4 shipments so far with another due today. We ordered all at one time. None of the plants were bundled and were literally thrown in the boxes. Out of 8 different items ordered so far, only one of them came complete and able to plant all of them. We can only hope our Sweet Potatoes come in a plantable condition.

On April 4th, we received Broccoli (half of the plants are planted, the other half (well the rest of the box) was just trash and I do mean trash. It looked like someone had raked up what fell on the floor at the end of the day and threw it in the box. Our Collards were beautiful. The Cauliflower and Cabbage arrived looking very sad, we planted anyway and they died within 2 days.
On April 11th, we received 1000 (?) Celebrity tomato plants. They were 2 inches tall and we barely got 200 of them planted. They are still pretty small after a month in the ground and we question whether they will even produce.
On May 3rd, we received 1000 tomato plants; these were good sized, but they were soaking wet and rotten in the box and we couldn't use any of them. They smelled like rotting tomato plants upon opening the box.
On May 10th, we received our order of 500 King Arthur Pepper plants, but only received 400. They were quite small and we counted everyone that was planted, we threw away only 1 or 2.
Today, we are expecting our shipment of sweet potatoes and will check them out.
Since the first shipment, we have called Mr. Evans 6 times and left messages; he never returned a call. Yesterday, I finally got him on the phone (by a stroke of luck). We very nicely explained to him on the phone what happened and he got very defensive saying "I don't send trash." Then he said, "I just send the plants; I don't guarantee they arrive to you alive."
He will not do anything to rectify this situation and I have called my credit card company who is disputing and collecting the prorated amount of the plants that we lost. Our total bill with them was almost $600 and it puts us in a lurch as we counted on those plants for our CSA and market sales.
Buyer Beware

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MistyMeadows Payneville, KY(Zone 7a) May 17, 2007

Oh, Evans Plant Company is from Tifton, GA.

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