Very quick reply! I'm about to leave!

When you first asked, you were talking about early October. Late October could be very, very nice--or it could be cold and awful! Since it sounds to me like you can't really count on your supplier to get them there when they say they will, and you might not actually get them until sometime into November, I think I'd tell them to either cancel or hold off on the order till spring. Chances are the weather would be nice enough that you'd be able to plant them this fall yet, but what would you do with them if you couldn't! Keeping them inside over winter isn't really a viable option, and you'd probably wind up buying more next spring if you tried. (Keeping one or two inside might work, but not a whole bunch of them---without a greenhouse.)

So it just depends on how game you are to take a chance and see when they really ship them, when you receive them, and what the weather is like when you're ready to plant them!

If you got them in spring, you could get them very early (March), harden them off, and plant them out then.

Gotta go,
Skybird

Skybird,

Thanks for the help! I went with what you said. I am just too big a wimp to plant in the fall anyway. I guess I have to wait till spring.

-xericgreen