What if I want to cancel my trade? 

If you change your mind, you can cancel the trade. However, we ask that you only do so in the event that you've lost too many to storage failure.

Since we take the tubers you've requested out of circulation for sales, there is a direct cost to our business for each swap we schedule that fails to come through. If we've promised it to you, we can't sell it!

In order to prevent storage failure as a cause to cancel your swap, we recommend you have a "safety factor" when determining how many tubers you have available for trade. We use a 75-85% safety factor for our sales (depending on the variety).

This means we estimate that as many as 1 in 4 tubers we've stored won't be viable in the spring, so we don't sell or swap them until the spring, when we can confirm they've survived successfully.

While storage rates are rarely that poor for us or other veteran gardeners, this gives us a good buffer on our inventory and keeps us from disappointing anyone, whether customers or swap partners.

How do I pack and ship tubers?
We'll send you a guide at confirmation time in the spring!

Can Sunset View Farm ship to you earlier or later?
No, We will only have the labor available for shipping during our designated shipping windows. Also, dahlias can freeze in transit, and we don't want to take the risk of either side of the trade being damaged during shipping.

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Can you ship to Sunset View Farm earlier or later?
Well, maybe - if you are able to harvest your tubers before the earliest expected frost date for New Jersey in 2022, you could ship them to us early so that you don't have to store them over the winter. However, we can't ship you our side of the deal until 2023, since we harvest after frost and process during the winter.

Later shipment to us also won't work because we need to have them at the farm by mid-May in order to get them in the ground while our help is around. 

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If you are a fellow dahlia farm, please ship to us whenever you do your spring fulfillment.