Delivery

Live plants

We deliver by hand, ourselves. No courier touches these plants.

• Bengaluru — all orders.
• Within 100 km of Gudibande, inside Karnataka — bulk orders only. That covers Chikkaballapur, Kolar, Doddaballapur, Devanahalli, Tumkur and Bengaluru Rural.

We do not deliver plants outside Karnataka. A filled bag is heavy and a plant does not travel well in a courier network, so we would rather hand it to you than sell you something that arrives broken.

Chatnipudi, breakfast mixes and crafts

These ship by courier anywhere in India. Around Bengaluru they come by hand with your plants, or on their own.

The courier charge depends on weight and where it is going, so the website does not add it to your total. Once you send your order on WhatsApp we confirm the charge there, and you pay it together with the order by UPI. Nothing is dispatched until you have agreed to it.

If an order has both plants and other items and the address is outside our plant delivery area, we can send the other items only.

What counts as bulk

20 plants or more, or orders above ₹10,000.

When

Delivered by hand around Bengaluru. We will agree a day with you. We run to Bengaluru every Thursday and will agree a time with you before we set out.

Plants marked grown to order are started when you order and delivered once established and hardened off: in about 15 days for most plants, 25 days for tomatoes, and 40 days for chillies, capsicums and brinjals. Each plant's page shows its lead time. If your order mixes ready plants with grown-to-order ones, everything comes together on the later date.

Hand delivery charges

₹100 per plant, and free on orders of 20 plants or more. A single bag is a long round trip for us, so larger orders carry no delivery charge.

What arrives

A filled grow bag, 12 inches across and 18 inches tall, with the plant already established in it and the olla in place and charged. It is heavy — reckon on 25 to 30 kg — so have somewhere in mind for it before we arrive, and expect to need both hands.

When it gets to you

Put it where it will get the sunlight the product page asks for, fill the olla, and leave it alone. Do not water the surface. See the Nabhi method for why.

If something is wrong

Tell us at the door. Because we hand the plant over in person you can look at it before we leave, which is the whole advantage of delivering this way. If a problem shows up later, email vandebeejam@gmail.com — see our replacement policy.