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Lazy S'S Farm 2008 Spring Shipping Schedule

 

The following ONLY applies to spring shipping and is irrelevant after June.  After June, we just ship ASAP, which is usually 7-10 days (except the peak months of April thru mid-May when it will take longer) after the order is placed depending on when the order comes in during the week.  Later in the summer, turn around is even more quickly.

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We schedule shipping by the following table in spring for 4 reasons

1. Plants arrive at a relatively safe planting time (around your average last Frost date)

2. Greenhouse grown plants can travel safely in the back of unheated Postal Trucks, be on unheated loading docks and airport Tarmacs without being damaged by cold

3.  The thousands of orders we ship in the short 9 week peak season are balanced more or less evenly so we can actually get all the shipments out on schedule.

4.  The beginning dates of this schedule coordinate with our production schedule.  We pot all winter with the goal in mind of starting shipping in mid-March  

 
Most of the country:   (All but AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA)
Zone 9 & 10 March 17th     or as soon as the plants are ready
Zone 8 March 24th     or as soon as the plants are ready
Zone 7B March 31 Zone 7A

April 7th

 or ASAP thereafter
Zone 6B April 14th Zone 6A April 21st   or ASAP thereafter
Zone 5B April 28th Zone 5A May 5th  or ASAP thereafter
Zone 4B  May 12th Zone 4A May 19th   or ASAP thereafter
Zone 3B May 26th Zone 3A May 26th  or ASAP thereafter
 
West Coast States of AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA Due to federal regulations, plants to these states require dipping in special chemicals to prevent the spread of Japanese Beetles to these states.  This chemical makes plants more sensitive to heat in transit so we don't ship in June, July and August.
All West Coast Zones April 14th thru June 2  No shipping in June, July, Aug.  Sept. 1st thru Nov. 10th

Spring West Coast Orders must change planes in Northern Airport Hubs so they cannot be safely shipped earlier than April 16th even though you could plant much sooner.

   

Orders placed Mid Spring and After: If you order comes in near or after your scheduled ship date, we just work it into the schedule as soon as possible.  We always ship by order number, 1st ordered, 1st shipped.  Please understand that, in particular, April is a madhouse in the plant shipping industry!  We can usually get orders that are placed in the middle of the spring season shipped within 7 to 10 days.

 

Can you ship my order earlier?  We often get this question if a particular area is having an early spring and unfortunately the answer is almost always no.  See link for more details.  We can ALWAYS ship later than the scheduled date for your zone.

     

We will contact you IF the plants you've ordered have been grown outside and/or can be shipped earlier.  Other than that, we have to adhere to the above schedule.  We over-winter a few very hardy plants outside and those can be shipped earlier than posted above if you entire order consists of outside grown plants but we notify you when we confirm your ship date if we can ship earlier. 

 

We use ONLY the Horticulture Industry Standard,  USDA Zone Chart.  (We and most of the industry do not go by the new Arbor Day Zones, which have moved many people up to a warmer zone because they're based on the last 15 years which many people believe was a cyclical high when looking at 100 years of recorded weather.)  We have to go by some standard system.  The USDA chart is the industry accepted standard, so while you might feel that you're in a different zone, our shipping is set up by zip code on the USDA chart.  It's a fair system -- and we have to have system, otherwise, shipping would be utter chaos!

   

 

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