Earthwiseseed Reviews 110

TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Review summary

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Evaluating 54 reviews, most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many customers experienced significant delays with their orders, often waiting weeks or even months for items to ship or arrive. There were frequent complaints about delivery services, with many reporting that shipping labels were created but packages were never actually handed over to carriers, leading to confusion and unfulfilled orders. People also found it difficult to contact the company, with calls going unanswered and emails receiving generic or no responses. However, some customers were satisfied with their products, noting successful growth in their gardens. A few other people also felt that their questions were answered promptly when they managed to get in touch.

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Order

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Delivery service

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Product

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Response time

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Customer communications

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Reviews shaping this summary

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Earthwise failed to ship my order for 30 days. Only shipped after I contacted my bank to stop payment. Terrible responses from customer service stating that UPS had my shipment but hadn't scanned it y... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Even though the initial product was decent, the second item (Truegrass Native Lawn, which is uber-expensive) didn't grow. I sent pictures and was told that it was growing ("coming through" was the exa... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Ordered. Never received product. UPS says label created, but they never received the product. SHOP says the product was delivered. There aren't delivery thefts from my house. Called customer service t... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

VERY POOR experience ! Earthwiseseed will take your money then life becomes a "wait and see" game about if and when you will ever see your order arrive. They excel in repetitive excuses and empty pr... See more


Company details

  1. Seed Supplier

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Your source for sustainable and eco-friendly grass, native wildflower seeds & alternative lawn solutions. We believe that a beautiful lawn doesn't have to come at the cost of the environment. That's why we offer a range of native ecotype & naturalized seed solutions that require no watering, no chemicals, and best of all no mowing. Browse our selection of lawn alternative and wildflower seeds today and join us in our mission to build back native habitat and cultivate a more sustainable future, one seed at a time.


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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

110 reviews

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Received in a Timely Manner

I received the seeds in a timely manner, they were well packaged.

18 March 2025
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Reply from Earthwiseseed

Thank you, Karen for taking the time to give us a review. We really appreciate it. Please do feel free to update us with your success once the seeds germinate.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Order never received

Placed an order on 3/23 and received a confirmation email. Haven't received any communication or product since. I have emailed twice at the addresses provided by the company and no response (although responses to others from comoany day they reply to all emails within an hour, this is not true). I didn't even bother trying to call. It sounds like they have low/no stock on items but there is nothing to indicate this prior to purchase that an order will be delayed. After an order is placed it is just not shipped and there is no communication at all.

23 March 2025
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Reply from Earthwiseseed

Hi, thank you for taking the time to write this review. We get a ton of emails today and try to answer all of them if you had or would like to call us at our 800 number we will be happy to assist you. We answer every phone call from 9 to 5 Monday through Friday.

We have plenty of stock to fill our orders. We just had so many orders so quickly that we have been ramping up employees to produce and package and ship quick enough. Seed is not the issue.

Your order is shipping out today

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Received seeds after a month

Update: attempted to cancel order but they shipped anyway. Still seems poorly managed but at least they delivered

4 weeks without the order shipping and only notification of delay came from me questioning the order after 2 weeks. Found alternatives within the same amount of time. If you can’t ship in a reasonable time don’t take payments

12 March 2025
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Reply from Earthwiseseed

If you’d like to reach out to us with your order number, we will get this taken care of for you. 100%. We are busy and we have been a little slow, but we are fully order as quickly as possible and we are catching up making a good headway of recent time with a larger staff and a better process.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Worth the wait?

Way behind on orders and believe they are getting hammered with messages too. As they get more organized hope they can give better updates on their page or social media. Will definitely update when I can comment on product. Pretty excited to try them out. One part of business is in NE, storm definitely slowed them down at busy time of year.

2 April 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not only poor, but rude customer service.

Confirmation promised shipping within four days. Two weeks later, the automated customer service email response makes some rather extraordinary claims to 15 hour shifts to catch up with backlog. This is all poor service but one takes one chances. I suppose we should be impressed with a family run business being so overwhelmed. However…
It was the intentionally offensive individual customer service email response that was also received only minutes after the automated email (and cannot be repeated here) that rather took me back. Not certain what this company is doing, but their business model of poor and rude customer service is certainly curious.

19 March 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid this company

Avoid this company - it's probably 1 guy who is reselling someone else's products. Ordered 2 items and one arrived 2 weeks after ordering and the other one came a month later AND they sent 1 pound instead of 10. Tried getting a refund through customer service and they shipped anyway. Cannot reach a live customer service agent! Awful experience

3 April 2025
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Reply from Earthwiseseed

Thank you for taking the time to review us. Sorry that your receipt took longer than you expected. We are available via email or our 800 number every day 833-476-7333. Please give us a call if you have an issue I’m looking to order now to see what happened with the one to 10 pound thing.

We are a small business absolutely that has exploded and we are extremely grateful to all the customers that I’ve purchased our seat and we are keeping up as best we can we have increased our staff times three in the past two weeks. We will resolve this for you and get you what you ordered if there was a mistake may we truly apologize

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Order never shipped out

I ordered my Tri-color clover seeds 2 weeks ago. It’s prime clover-planting season right now and I have no seeds and no news. I emailed, no answer. Tried their chat on their website, no response. Terribly disappointed. Can’t even get a refund for the product I never got.

14 March 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

You won't get your product!

You won't get your product!
I ordered my seeds at the beginning of March. I have called, emailed and texted. I can not get a response from the company. I feel stupid for ordering from them.
I contacted 973 270-9975, 570 253-4704, 973 270-9975 and your answer is the first one that I received. Please give me an update as to when my order will arrive.

19 March 2025
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Reply from Earthwiseseed

Hi Terry, we are 100% legit company just extremely busy. I’m not sure how you tried to reach us. We respond to every email and every phone call. And text as well. We notified all of our customers that the creeping thyme was backordered. We got in 40 pounds this week. We are processing all the orders as fast as possible. You should have your Seed shipped out by Monday the latest if not today. I hope once you receive it, you would be nice enough to amend this review. Thank you.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

No conformation email and no seed ... yet

I bought seed on 3/3/2025, but I did not receive a conformation receipt and I have not received the seed. I have contacted Earthwise via email.

Update: I appreciate the response of the company. It seems though that they need to find a way to timely ship their orders and anticipate busy times. A few days after I posted my first review, I received the seed. I sowed and hope for the best!

2 March 2025
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Reply from Earthwiseseed

Sorry for the delay your order was shipped via UPS on March 8th. It’s scheduled to be delivered today. I don’t want to share that information on here but I did email you the tracking. Sorry for the delay. We are very busy also you never received an email with your tracking because when you placed your order with us, you did not provide us with an email address only a phone number. I hope once you receive your package from UPS today, you will reconsider this feedback. We are extremely busy and trying to keep up with all of our orders during the busiest peak season of the year. Thank you

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Manage you expectations.

Original Review: Ordered almost a week ago. Website says 24-48hr shipping. No shipment! No communication! Charged my card already even though never shipped the product. I’m trying to reach them now a few different ways. Will probably have to report to my bank and report to consumer affairs.

Update: I was hoping that this review would get the attention of the company as it appeared that they responded to these every time. I was unable to get a response through the emails that you’ve provided for contact or trying to contact you on Facebook. Firstly, I’m glad at least your exist as I’ve heard nothing from you since I placed my order. Secondly, your website clearly states 24 to 48 hours to ship under your shipping policy and it appears this is an issue every person appears to be having because every review on this website talks about it. So maybe you should adjust your policy on the website to manage customers’ expectations. Or at the very least communicate with your customers about the delay. Thirdly, I will await until I actually receive your product to fully update my review to let other customers know my full experience as I’ve yet to get it. But at least I’m glad I was able to get your attention this way.

Final Update: I wanted to post the final update and update my review as promised. I did receive the product. It did come packaged pretty well. Has a link to instructions. Just know to manage your expectations. The company does not ship and you were close to the 24-48 hour window as promised. That appears to be a consistent complaint across most reviews I’ve seen and the customer service has been less than great and somewhat rude. it took three weeks from the time I ordered to the time I got the product. Even after they have created the label and I got a shipment notification, it took another week for them to actually get the product to the shipping carrier. But I did get it and it looks fine.

6 March 2025
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Reply from Earthwiseseed

Hi Jane, I’m not sure where you’re trying to reach us. We respond to every email within an hour. We answer every phone call during the daytime when we’re open and we respond to our live chat on the website 24 hours a day.

Maybe you should consider that it’s early spring and we are insanely busy you ordered less than a week ago. We are working towards as fast as we can. We’re processing hundreds of orders a day we are not a scam or nothing to be aware of. We are 100% legit and your order will be shipped out very soon probably tomorrow your order hasn’t even been a week that’s including Sunday when we’re closed, please reconsider your review. We are a family owned business. Please give us a chance to get you your order. I assure you, you will get it shortly.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I had a fantastic experience with…

I had a fantastic experience with Earthwise Seed. The team was incredibly helpful in answering my questions, and their customer service was top-notch. My order arrived pretty quickly, and the seeds were well-packaged and high quality, so beautiful. I’ll definitely be ordering again. Highly recommend!

12 January 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

BE AWARE IF YOU TRY TO BUY SEED FROM…

BE AWARE IF YOU TRY TO BUY SEED FROM THIS COMPANY!! The website promised that seeds would be shipped within 24-48hours of placing an order. It has been a week and a half and I just received shipping notice for 1/2 of my order, after I emailed complaining. When I checked the tracking ID it said the 1/2 order of seeds hasn't even been given to UPS, only a label has been made. I still have not received any shipping notice for the other half of my order. I have not received any communication from Earthwise Seed, other than the automated order confirmation and 1 shipping notice. This is terrible business practices and blatant lies about shipping times. No communication from the company about shipping delays or any remedies for the inconveniences it has caused me due to the delays.

3 March 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have been waiting 2 weeks for my…

I have been waiting 2 weeks for my order. Website claims all seed orders ship in 48 hours. Contacted them two Fridays ago, which was a week after I ordered, and they said it was shipping that day. On Monday a shipping label was created so I waited. Called them again the following Friday and they said it was going to ship that day. Still hasn't shipped. Sent two emails about cancelling the order. Probably going to have to just contact my credit card company to get my money back.

7 March 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Easy to order excellent product

Easy to order. Good choice of really excellent ground cover seeds. Loved seeing the dog pee resistant grass/clover choice as well as many other low ground cover selections. I am a believer that our yards are healthier with variety of ground cover selections.

15 February 2025
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Happy with my order

I ordered Lawn grass seed mixture. It arrived safely and in a timely manner. I live in Seed sown into existing lawn. So now it’s wait and see.

30 January 2025
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Two green thumbs up

Wow. Earthwise Seeds really surprised me. Their seeds are top notch, my garden's never looked better. Love the no-mow lawn idea, makes life a lot easier. Had to ask them a question once and they were pretty helpful. Definitely recommend!

17 February 2025
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