The scoop on 'Plantation Products, Inc.'

I have bought a variety of flower seeds in the past 3 years from this company at Jewel stores and they have all either failed to germinate or have not been hardy enough to thrive.
I will never purchase any products from them again.

i purchased 1 box of the perennial or shade (cant remember) and my parents bought two. We have just put a double wide trailer on sand and on the north side of the house,, none of the grass seed took. Its about a 45 degree hill. we tilled up the ground to get it loose, and then sprinkled the mixture over the area very thorough. Now we have a bunch of itty bitty pink flowers, tons of bachelor buttons (cornflowers) in purple and blue, i think some foxglove comming up, and this one flower that looks like a daisy, but i really dont know taking off like a weed. it started out really really small and then turned into a monster, with big beautiful blooms and it keeps branching out like a bush. ALL THIS IS HAPPENING IN SAND AND ON A HILL WHERE THE WATER WASHES AWAY! we have what looks like gigantic marigolds at the bottom of the hill where the water washes down and tons of purple clover as well.. i give it a thumbs up!!! my grandmother and i planted this same stuff about 5 years ago, when she was still alive, where i grew up. it started off like where is it?, and then boom the next year the whole thing was COVERED in flowers. it might take a couple of years to get it started, but its an awesome brand. also i bought some hollyhocks from the company and they are growing to be humongous. happy planting!

I bought a one pound box of Zinnia which was Dwarf Pumila, they germinated pretty good and then when they bloomed, they were suppose to be 2 to 3 inch fully double flowers. Sorry these flowers will do good to be as big as a quarter, beautiful colors, and seem to be good plants. Don't really think it is my flower bed, because we planted them in two different beds and have fertilized them faithfully with miracle grow. Just believe they over estimated the size a little, which was very disappointing, because they are all plants and no size to the blooms. Sorry this will be my last product I will buy from this company.

Thank you

I bought a large package of Zesty Italian Mesclun. Some of it grew very large, very fast. I cut some for a salad and ate it and about 1-1/2 hours later I got very dizzy and tired. I was ok the next day. A few days later when I was working in my garden, I looked over at the lettuce row and there was a flower blooming. Upon further examination, I could see that it was a Datura or Devil's trumpe which is a poisonous plant. Looking further, there were about 12 or 13 plants in the row. I don't know if they have anymore complaints about this, but I could not email them and am not going to waste a stamp to let them know. The leaves of the Datura looked like the lettuce in the row, so I did not know the difference.

I purchased "Marigold : Dwarf French Double Mixed Colors Seed Mixture" at a local store 3 July.
The front of the box claims "COVERS 25 Sq. Ft." in bold letters.
Box is marked as "Pckd for 07, sell by 12/07" and states "Contains at least 325 seeds" of (2.2%) Tageta patula and (97.8%) inert matter so the seed is supposedly fresh and viable.
I created a four(4) inch strip along the 30 feet of the driveway cleaned and prep'd it for the seed, etc. That 10 sq. ft. which is less than half of what the box claimed for coverage area.
I have been watering the strip three or four times a day every day for nearly two weeks to make sure it stayed moist. This was no easy task. Once, even twice, a day would have been easy... but it has been hot here and ground dries fast ...

I have about a dozen plants spread over 30 feet.
That is less than 10% germination rate.
It looks like ...well, it looks *bad*.

Now I have to go find and buy more of the marigold seeds in order to fill the *HUGE* and RANDOM empty spots and spend another two weeks watering. Or I have to spend fifty bucks on the plants and transplant them. The whole point was to spend a few bucks, watch the seeds sprout and grow to cover the area in front of the hedge roses.

There is no way the company can compensate me for the time lost.

Do *not* buy from the these people. They liars and thieves who promise whatever is required to sell the product(the lie) and will steal your valuable time(the theft). Time is money in my book.

Oh, unknown to me at the time of the July purchase, this is my second bad experience with this company and product. Two years ago I purchased some cans of flowers making similar promises(COVERS 12 Sq. Ft. ...). I got about the same results: a half a dozen plants that lived.
I never bothered planting one of the cans and upon checking it, just found it is from the SAME company: American Seed, Plantation Products, Inc. of Norton Mass.

If anyone at PP actually reads this I'd like to point out that if the box had said "Covers 5 sq. ft." which is the actual truth, I would have nothing to complain about. I also would have bought and planted at least 2, probably 3, boxes and should have a 30+ foot long, 4" strip of marigolds along the drive.

Hi. Was first pleased to purchase from Walmart (in Zephyrhills, Florida, our winter location,) packets of your seeds for only .30 cents each. However, yesterday, when I harvested several of your "grey zucchini" squash from the garden here in North Boston, New York, their intense bitter taste made them impossible to eat. Were these gourd seeds? The fruit did resemble the picture on the packet. Your distribution of seeds at such a low cost is to be applauded. However, I had to chuck two very mature plants into the compost pile. Am left wondering what the problem could have been to cause the bitter taste!?! So far, the Early Yellow Crookneck has made only a few wilted fruits, so we cannot provide you any feedback on these.

I bought some radish seeds at the Dollar Tree store. At 10 cents a package I figured, what the hell. After planting it looks like 100% germination and the radishes are fantastic. Good job.

The seeds from this company cost about $0.10 per package. There is no way to complain about a product that cheap. Also, I have found that after ordering seeds from all over the place that these are THE best seeds available anywhere. They germinate better than most others, come in outstanding varieties, and are available at Wal-Mart. I have no complaints about this company. What I suggest for those of you who dislike this company is that perhaps there are a few things about seeds and their "manufacturers" that you may not be aware of that would lead you to believe that there was a problem with them.

First of all, I've never bought good grass seed from anyone. The only way to ensure weed free grass to to buy sod from a place where you can see they neither have weeds and treat for them. Second, in order to have success with seeds, you have to know a thing or two about gardening and growing seeds. All seeds don't grow well in all places and under all conditions. In a nutshell, seed growing can be a real pain, unless you have a greenhouse, start early, tend to them every day, have planted them in just the right spot with good soil, and have weeded around them until they get big. Third, every seed company has bad years, for example, this year, 2006-7, they're all going to hurt some because seeds from anyone will suck, due to extreme drought across the U.S. Fourth, seeds out this year are from the year before's plants. If you buy seeds in October for next year, they'll be half dead because they'll be over a year old. Fifth, if you buy these seeds at wal-mart, often they will leave them outside to freeze, let them get wet, and even keep them for several years, so, make sure the seeds look fresh and are stored properly at the store and read the date on the package back before you buy them to make sure they're still alive. Finally, don't order plants on mail-order (not just talking about this place) because UPS isn't known to get plants to your house either timely or undamaged and of course a ten foot tree isn't coming to your house in a ten foot box, so the plants won't be very old or reliable.

My wife and I recently bought a 1.25 lb box of Perennial Garden Wildflower blend. The box states that 90% of the contents is inert ingredients "to aid even seed distribution".
I opened the box and found 100% of the contents to be the inert ingredient material.
I was very disappointed.

A packet of Clarke's heavenly blue morning glory seeds purchased contained only 12 seeds of which only three germinated. I feel let down, ripped off. I thought anyone could grow morning glories!

I purchased two 5-pound bags of Northland grass seed. I broadcast the seed on my property and watered, by hand, twice daily for the first 8 days and then daily.

· About 7 days after seeding I noticed a weed coming up over most of the area I seeded. The weed growth has several interesting characteristics.
· All the weeds came up within a few days from the first observed one.
· The weed is of only one variety – identified as Henbit by the Extension Service
· This weed is present only on my property and does not extend onto the four adjacent properties, even though there is no fence or other demarcation between properties. They are contiguous.
· I walked up and down the streets near my house and my property is the only one with this weed.
· These weeds were not present on my property before I seeded.

It is very improbable that this weed came from a pre-existing source on my lawn or that it was an airborne infestation. The conditions outlined above strongly support the source of this weed were the seed I purchased.

I called Plantation Products, the manufacturer of the seed. They offered to refund the $20 I paid for the seed. I do not consider this an acceptable response. They not only supplied a defective product but the result of that defect caused extensive damage to my lawn, as well as the cost to me of additional time and money to destroy the weed, reseed and water. If the seed failed to germinate, product replacement may seem like an acceptable option, but in this case the seed did germinate and the result of that germination was the destruction of my lawn. They did not supply the product promised on the container but instead their product was such that damage and additional cost ensued.

Weedkiller to kill this weed is $30 a gallon and a spreyer to apply it is $25. Considering the damage to my lawn (little grass, mostly henbit) I do not think it unreasonable to request that the manufacturer pay for correcting the damage.

I tried calling the company president about 10 to 15 times but could not get a response. I either got a recording and no return call or twice, a secretary who put me throught to a recording. The store I purchased the seed from wrote to the company's sale manger for me. This got no response.

I had a very good experience with this company, but was very disappointed when they discontinued their online retail catalog.

Very poor germination rates and with impatiens, zero germination. I started impatien seed from 4 different companies and the other 3 did great. Other seeds were smashed in the package. I ordered on-line. They were out of some of the items I ordered but didn't contact me for substitutions, they just didn't send them. They did send the wrong variety of one item I ordered. I requested a refund for the seeds that didn't germinate and never heard anything back from them.

Wow! Quick processing, quick delivery and great looking products. I ordered seeds, seed starting mix, mini greenhouse. All look good. I will use them again for ordering.

I have ordered many times from this company in the past couple of years. Service is fast. Their website is easy to navigate around and it seems as though they only sell their own products. Large selection of perennial annual and veggie seeds also a good selection of seed starting stuff. They did have alot of info on growing seeds and gardening information. Good customer service. They do not have a retail catalog though, just the website.

Seed only online catalog with a few seed starting supplies, as well. Great deals on perennial seed Spring 2002 (.99ea). Check out their continental veggies sites as well. Only ship Fed Ex, & only within "Continental US". Minimum shipping cost is 5.95 or 10% of order. Have used their seed for the last two seasons, and it was reliable. Online catalog user-friendly, and additional info was available. As far as I can see, they do not offer a hardcopy catalog.WZ