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  1. Long Hot Peppers Looking for long hot peppers? We have an assortment of spicy long peppers that are a great addition to your pepper and vegetable garden!One of our favorite long hot peppers is the Goat Horn Hot Pepper. It is quite prolific, and has great red color when fully mature. Here are some photos of a loaded down plant. It can be quite pretty in pots too, larger 5+ gallon pots are best. For other long hot peppers, you can also try growing Cayenne Pepper seeds; or Chile de Arbol seeds, with their b...
  2. Growing Chile Seeds in Japan We were excited to get these photos from one of our seed customers, Ryoichi A., in a small village of rural Osaka, Japan. They have been growing our NuMex Heritage Big Jims and other chiles in their beautiful fields. They recently ordered our Aji Limo Lemon Drop Pepper seeds, Serrano Seeds, Poblano Seeds, Red Cherry Hot Seeds, Carolina Reaper Seeds (the hottest pepper in the world!), Tabasco Seeds, NuMex Trick or Treat Habanero seeds (no heat), White Bhut Jolokia seeds, Peach Bhut Jolokia se...
  3. Pepper Seeds Pepper Seeds from Around the World Sandia Seed specializes in pepper seeds – we carry chile peppers from around the world! New Mexican Chile Seeds:We are huge fans of New Mexican chile, so we carry a wide variety of Hatch green chile seeds and red chile seeds that have been grown in the Hatch region of New Mexico. Once you've tasted Hatch green chile, it's hard not to want to have it wherever you live – and finding this special chile fresh is difficult outside of New Mexico – mos...
  4. Discounted Pepper Seed 3-Packs We offer Discounted Pepper Seed 3-Packs with three popular pepper seeds in each at a 15% discount. No promo code needed! We put together our customer favorites for the most prolific and tasty or spicy peppers that people grow every year. This is a great way to save some money with 15% off discounts on the 3-packs and harvest some of the best chiles that you can easily grow in your own garden. Wondering how to grow these chile peppers in your garden? We have included lots of secrets to succes...
  5. Green Chile Seeds Discounts Looking for Seed Discounts or Promo Code for seeds? We are offering 15% off our most popular seeds in our new Discounted Pepper Seed 3-Packs. If you're looking for Green Chile Seeds, Sandia Seed is your source! We offer a large variety of Hatch and Green Chile seeds that have been grown in the New Mexico Hatch region for centuries. Because of its great flavor, New Mexican green chiles have become more and more popular around the world. There's even a green chile shortage at the end of...
  6. Hot Pepper Seeds If you're looking for hot pepper seeds, green chile seeds or so-hot-it-will-give-you-hiccups super hot peppers, you've come to the right place. Sandia Seed came to be because we wanted to offer a better variety of pepper seeds to the home gardener. We found that a lot of the New Mexican green chile varieties were not easy to come by for gardeners, so we decided to work with New Mexican farmers to bring their heirloom green chiles and peppers to the home gardeners and urban gardeners o...
  7. Why didn't my pepper seeds germinate? "Why didn't my pepper seeds germinate?" This is a common question in the vegetable gardening world. It's not uncommon for experienced gardeners to have trouble starting peppers from seed. Number One Reason Pepper Seeds Don't Germinate:We find that the number one reason that pepper seeds don't germinate is if they are kept below 80˚ F when germinating. Pepper seeds, especially hot pepper seeds, germinate much more successfully when kept consistently moist at 85˚-90˚ F d...
  8. Spicy Salt Recipe Spicy Salt Recipe: Ingredients: Sea Salt or any salt will do! Dried Peppers (any hot peppers or super hot peppers are great in this recipe, you can also make Red Hatch Chile Salt with dried red Hatch chiles!) Herbs (optional, you can add dried oregano, rosemary, thyme, basil, curry, turmeric... the options are endless!) Directions: Put salt and dried peppers into a spice grinder, coffee grinder or food processor and pulse until well mixed. Or if you have a molcajete, that's also a g...
  9. Garden Memes Check out our Garden Memes for those who love gardening! My Favorite Sport is Gardening! ...And to my family I leave you these 52,588 garden photos of my phone. 😂 Funny Garden Meme:“Sorry I have plants this weekend” Grow your own food and shorten your food chain! A garden is a friend you can visit any time. If peppers are a fruit, then hot sauce is a smoothie. There is no WiFi in your Garden... but the connections are better! Gardening is my favorite therapy! ...
  10. Cascabel Chile We noticed a lot of people search for Cascabel Chiles on our website recently, so we're working to get some Cascabel seeds for you soon! Cascabel peppers are members of the Capsicum annuum species and are also known as Guajones, Coras, Chile Bola, and rattle chile because of the shape of the chile and the sound the seeds make when a dried chile is shaken. Typically, Cascabel is the name given to the dried version of Chile Bolas. In the meantime, we wanted to give you some alternatives to...
  11. Mild Chili Peppers We noticed that a lot of you are searching or asking for mild chili peppers, and we wanted to write up a quick post to give you our list of favorite mild chiles to grow. We carry a huge assortment of pepper seeds, including mild green chiles such as the Mild Hatch Chile, or the infamous Anaheim chile that has world-wide fame. The Anaheim pepper was originally known as New Mexico No. 9. It was developed in 1913 by Dr. Fabian Garcia at New Mexico State University. He was seeking a chile pepper ...
  12. Mild Chile Peppers Mild Green Chile SeedsIf you love spicy Hatch chiles such as Big Jims, but you are looking for a milder green chile to tame down the super hot chiles, or to make a milder chile that everyone in your family will enjoy, try growing our Anaheim seeds, which grow into productive plants with chiles that have 500-1,000 Scoville units, about half the heat of some of the milder Big Jims. Or try our Mild Hatch Chiles which are also around 1,000 Scovilles. This Hatch Green Mild NM 6-4 has always been t...
  13. Best Peppers to Grow in Containers View all Peppers that Grow Well in Containers » If you want to grow peppers in containers, here are our favorite varieties that do well in pots – using large 5 gallon or larger containers is best for growing peppers. Make sure to keep them in a sunny location, and be sure not to overwater them – let the soil dry out a bit between watering. Here are lots of the best peppers that grow well in containers: 1. Shishito Pepper SeedsThese delicious Japanese sweet peppers are easy to prepare, just fr...
  14. Cheap Vegetable Seeds Looking for cheap vegetable seeds? Check out our discounted seed 3-packs, with three of our most popular varieties. Our Chimayo, Big Jim & Sandia Select Green Chile Seeds 3-pack has 90 seeds total for just $6.35! Now that's a great deal, you can grow a huge plot of these famous New Mexican chiles in your backyard garden or urban farm for under $7. Check out this Wyoming gardener's massive chile garden and harvest photos below – she grows a HUGE harvest of Big Jim green chiles ev...
  15. Chilli Seeds Welcome gardeners and farmers! Sandia Seed offers chilli seeds for sale from pepper varieties around the world – we specialized in New Mexican Hatch Chile seeds as well as other red and green chiles like the famous (and huge) Big Jim Chile, or the delicious Poblano Chile. Below are some of our green chile seeds we offer. We spell chile, with an 'e' at the end, but depending on where you live in the world, chile can be spelled as: chile, chili, or chilli. Whatever way you spell ...
  16. Seed Racks & Seed Displays Are you looking for a seed rack display for your nursery, garden shop or store? Sorry, we are no longer offering free seed rack displays due to the high shipping cost. The racks are optional, so if you have your own seed displays, you don't need to purchase a seed rack. But, if you want one to highlight our seeds, go ahead and add one to your cart when you are purchasing one of our pepper seed collections – you'll get 50% off the seeds. Due to their large size (even when folded flat)...