Grow your own offers

Daisymaisy

My Grow Your own magazine came today and the main offer is 6 Sungold supersweet tomato plants 'free' (+ 6.99 p&p).   I have found a code online which works, I have just ordered some, to get 12 free plants plus the p&p.  The company is You Garden and the code is FREETOMS.
From what I can gather they appear to be a bush tomato rather than the sungold which is a cordon.  It will be interesting to see what they are like.

Davesnave

I hope they are better than the lemon tree infested with bugs they sent here as a gift from someone. It wasn't secured in the packaging so it was broken too. In fairness, they replaced with another, also broken and with different bugs.

Do you ever Google before purchasing on-line?

https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/yougarden

Yes I know there is Trustpilot, but many of us don't trust it now. Feefo, reached via You Garden itself is mixed in terms of responses.

I'd say pig in a poke, which is often what you get when buying non-standard items on-line.

For Sungold, a packet of seeds is £3 and job done, but that requires forward planning. One of the best tomatoes if you are getting the real thing. The real Sungolds are indeterminate and not bush toms. Mine grow to 10' but I'm boasting now!

Farway

Davesnave said:

I hope they are better than the lemon tree infested with bugs they sent here as a gift from someone. It wasn't secured in the packaging so it was broken too. In fairness, they replaced with another, also broken and with different bugs.

LOL, real customer service

Davesnave

Farway said:

Davesnave said:

I hope they are better than the lemon tree infested with bugs they sent here as a gift from someone. It wasn't secured in the packaging so it was broken too. In fairness, they replaced with another, also broken and with different bugs.

LOL, real customer service

Better than I received from Ashridge Nurseries in 2020. When I emailed photos to say "Oi, the bare root trees you sent have hardly any roots..." I got a snotty reply to say their experienced staff know what they're doing. As I'd ordered the trees for my mate, a third party who doesn't do 'internet stuff,' that also invalidated their guarantee.

Needless to say both trees died. My mate is a patient guy, so I'm growing him two myself now.

mjm3346

YouGarden/Ideal world/GardenBargins are pretty much the same thing.
I have had no problems in the past with orders of compost from IW/GB - but a YouGarden order for items including plug plants "dispatched" 12/05 was due to arrive 17/05, never even showed as received by  the courier - 18/05 was asked to "give it a few days" (did point out to them that the plants would probably be no good after that long in transit) -  22/05 told it was a glitch in the system should arrive by 26/05  - 27/05 "sorry" they will reorder, requested just to cancel and refund is supposedly in progress. (my fault for not reading the reviews when I strayed from just ordering compost)

Daisymaisy

Davesnave said:

I hope they are better than the lemon tree infested with bugs they sent here as a gift from someone. It wasn't secured in the packaging so it was broken too. In fairness, they replaced with another, also broken and with different bugs.

Do you ever Google before purchasing on-line?

https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/yougarden

Yes I know there is Trustpilot, but many of us don't trust it now. Feefo, reached via You Garden itself is mixed in terms of responses.

I'd say pig in a poke, which is often what you get when buying non-standard items on-line.

For Sungold, a packet of seeds is £3 and job done, but that requires forward planning. One of the best tomatoes if you are getting the real thing. The real Sungolds are indeterminate and not bush toms. Mine grow to 10' but I'm boasting now!

I do generally check for reviews but didn't this time 🙄.  We'll see what turns up, if it turns up 🤣.  I'll try and get back with what happens and how they turn out.  Substandard plants will be given short shrift and a refund of postage paid will be demanded.

Fortunately, I grow my veg from seed and rarely give in to the russian roulette that is plant mail order.  My many varieties of grown from seed tomatoes (I just can't help myself 😁), including the fantastic real sungolds, are all going strong and being potted on in the polytunnel for 'guaranteed' results and planted outdoors with 🤞.   Not even sure where I am going to cram these plants in yet but at 60p a plant it's worth the gamble.  

You are right Sungolds are superb and would be my desert island variety if I had to choose. I can be spied zip tying an extra canes to the top of the 8' canes to extend the height of the support in a good year outdoors 😉.  This could be a more productive sunflower type challenge, 'grow the tallest Sungold'😀.  Can't wait for everything to finally get growing and the first homegrown tomatoes of the season.

Farway

OT but I ordered Sungold seeds in the Brown's £1 offer this weekend. This time next year I will be knee deep in the blighters

Daisymaisy

Farway said:

OT but I ordered Sungold seeds in the Brown's £1 offer this weekend. This time next year I will be knee deep in the blighters

And a bargain to boot, think of the satisfaction to come 😊.

mjm3346

I have received my full refund, took about 12 days but that did include 2 weekends and a BH Monday