Hatch Chile Salsa RecipeIf you grow our Hatch Chile seeds, then you probably know you use Hatch chiles in pretty much any recipe for great flavor and heat. Here's a twist on one of our favorite salsa recipes, using hot hatch chiles for the heat and flavor, and heirloom tomatoes for an amazing salsa. Hatch Chile Salsa Recipe Ingredients: 4 Cups of Diced Fresh Tomatoes (5-10 Heirloom Tomatoes) ~ or ~ 1 large can of whole tomatoes 1/2 Cup of Hatch Chile, roasted, deseeded & diced (use any heat desired, we lik...
Pepper Plant PestsPepper plants are not as prone to pests as other vegetables, but they do occasionally have problems with insect damage. We don't usually worry about a few holes in the leaves, but sometimes pests are more troublesome so we have our tips on pest prevention below. We never advise using insecticides or pesticides in your garden (remember, bugs are bird snacks!) instead, read our natural pest prevention and control tips below to keep your pepper garden healthy and happy: Top Pepper Plant Pest...
Best Vegetables to Grow in ColoradoWe think that some of the best vegetables to grow in Colorado are Chile peppers and Tomatoes. We of course love growing all other vegetables as well including zucchini, squash, pumpkins, herbs, eggplant, and cucumbers of course, for making spicy pickles with the hot peppers! But tomatoes and peppers are hard to top. Any Colorado vegetable garden is likely to include several varieties of peppers and tomatoes, they bring such a wide variety of flavors and colors to the garden.Just think about...
Best Seed Catalog for Chile Peppers & TomatoesWe are so excited to be offering our first-ever Seed Catalog in 2019! This is the BEST Seed Catalog for Chile Pepper Seeds and Tomato Seeds. We have a huge variety of Hatch Chile seeds, New Mexican Chile seeds, Hot Pepper Seeds, the Hottest Pepper Seeds, and Sweet Pepper Seeds. And don't miss our Heirloom Tomato Seeds as well as our Hybrid Tomato Seeds). Check out the catalog below, or download our Seed Catalog PDF, or order a Seed Catalog to be mailed to you in our online store.
New Hatch Chile SeedsHave you grown our new varieties of Hatch Chile seeds? Our latest favorite for those who like it super hot, is our soon-to-be-famous Rattlesnake Hatch Green Chile Seeds. These wicked little beasts are 4-8" long with thick HOT flesh that is SO delicious roasted. If Hatch Green Lumbre X-Hot is too hot for you, then try this perfect pepper. Its Scoville is reported to reach up to 18,000 SHU, but more often it is much lower near the 10,000 SHU rating. The Hatch Green Rattlesnake has a...
Seed LibraryWE LOVE SEED LIBRARIES!Many libraries are starting to offer Seed Libraries, which is a wonderful trend! A seed library is a place where the community can get seeds for free (or sometimes with a nominal fee). Many seed libraries are now opening up in public libraries and community centers, and we love the idea of sharing seeds! Seed Libraries encourage everyone to try to grow their own food, even if their budget is limited. What's also great about a seed library is that you can donate your...
Yellow JalapeñoYellow Jalapeño Yellow Jalapeño seeds are easy to grow, and these yellow beauties will certainly please in the garden! Our NuMex Lemon Spice Yellow Jalapeño is a yellow jalapeño that ripens as early as 65 days after germinating – which means you can enjoy these yellow gems earlier than most other peppers! They're great in salsas, stuffed as poppers, on tacos, or any other dish you want to add spice to! These novel Yellow Jalapeños are sure to attract attention as they are so bright an...
Discounted Pepper Seed 3-PacksWe 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...
Purple Bell PeppersLooking for Purple Bell Peppers or other Purple Pepper seeds? If you love purple like we do, you always want to plant purple flowers... but did you know you can also plant purple vegetables like Purple Bell Peppers or Purple Tomatoes? Purple is one of the best colors in your garden, it compliments the green leaves and everyone who sees a purple pepper or fruit are delighted! View all our beautiful Ornamental Peppers » If you like hot peppers like us, check out the Bhut Jolokia Purple pe...
Green Chile Seeds DiscountsLooking 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...
Fatalii Salsa RecipeFatalii Pepper Salsa Recipe This is a great fruity and spicy salsa with tomatoes, pineapple and the tropical flavored Fatalii Peppers that add a great citrus heat. Fatalii peppers are also famous for making a fruity flavored hot sauce, check out our Easy Fermented Hot Sauce recipe » Fatalii peppers are hard to find at grocery stores, so if you can grow your own, you will have so many that you can share them with friends and dry or freeze some for year-round and winter use. This Fatali...
Hot Pepper Salsa Tasting Party IdeaSalsa Tasting Party If you like salsa like we do, here's an idea: Try our Carolina Reaper Salsa Recipe and other Salsa Recipes, and make three salsas using different hot peppers for each salsa, and then have a salsa tasting party! Make 3 salsas, or more, depending on how many different types of peppers you have to taste. Dried peppers also work great for making salsas, so you can have salsa parties in the off-season months, too! :) Discover our Favorite Salsa Recipes » You could hav...
Hand Pollinate PeppersDo you need to hand pollinate peppers?If growing outdoors in a pollinator-friendly garden, you shouldn't have any problems with your pepper flowers' pollination. Usually the bees and the breeze pollinate your peppers with great success. If you are finding that your pepper plants keep dropping blossoms without any peppers, below are some tips to keep the peppers coming all summer long: Create a Pollinator Garden:If you want a great harvest of peppers, enlist your pollinator friends!...
Can you grow peppers in London?Some of our customers ask us, can you grow peppers in London? Sure! Of course you can grow peppers in London and the UK. We have customers growing our chile seeds around the world with great success, from everywhere from Florida to the UK. The trick is to start chile pepper seeds with lots of heat indoors first to get them to germinate quickly, and grow into strong seedlings before planting outside after it warms up to 60-70˚ consistently. Then, make sure to harden them off before planting o...
Mulching PeppersDid you know that mulching your vegetables is one of the best things you can do for plant health and production? That's right, mulch helps keep the soil moisture in and more consistent, and it also helps cut down on disease (especially on Heirloom tomatoes) as it prevents soil from splashing up on the leaves. If you have a lawn, one of your best free sources of mulch is grass clippings! You can spread them out in your garden beds (make sure not to pile the mulch too close to the stems of...
How to Make Red Pepper FlakesHow to Make Red Pepper Flakes One of our favorite ways to preserve our peppers is to make red pepper flakes. In this simple recipe, you simply dry or dehydrate your peppers and then grind them in a food processor or coffee grinder to create chile flakes (or chile powder if you grind them fine enough). It's super easy and is perfect for all varieties of pepper such as Aleppo Peppers, Chimayo Chile, Guajillo chile, Paprika peppers, Cayenne peppers, Goat Horn Peppers, Thai Dragon peppers, Pa...
These fabulous peppers added lots of color to our patio pots. So pretty in multiple colors, plus you can pick them and add to salsa for a nice spicy kick. These are fun in any ornamental edible garden.
We let these hang dry, then ground them up – they made the tastiest pepper flakes. They have a nice kick, but good flavor too. Easy to grow plants, pretty peppers.
Great seeds, good germination, plants grow quickly and produce lots of pods for roasting. Great flavor and just the right amount of spice. We grow these every year in our garden in Utah.
I tried these purple Cherokee seeds on 2024. This is the first time growing these purple Cherokees and were amazed at the ease of germination and taste
These germinated in two days. I started them in midsummer and they fruited by late fall in my zone 10b garden and are overwintering just fine. I’ll have more to harvest by late spring. I made my red sauce for pozole for Christmas with my harvest!
Big Chiles with just enough heat to add to green enchilada's. The flavor after roasting is fantastic. Since green chile roasting is not a local thing in Eastern Washington we us a weed burner. The smell of roasting peppers is heavenly.
My favorite green chili to grow. Plenty of heat and after roasting sit perfectly on a hamburger. Also my wonderful wife makes Puelo Chili jam that is a real crowd pleaser
Plants were quite bushy and full of peppers. Great flavor. Made a wonderful little Ristra with some of the later harvested peppers. Will continue to grow these yearly.
These plants were super healthy all season long and produced a LOT of fruit. They'll add heat and color to any dish. They made my cowboy candy and pickled jalapeños extra special!
Very good germination rate and super abundant and delicious peppers!. I had them in 10g and 5g fabric pots and they very well the last two years. Amazing to smoke and dry / freeze to have throughout the year! I just made a spicy brown porter mustard with scotch bonnets! Also made an amazing roasted scotch bonnet hot sauce! yum!
Hatch Chile Salsa Recipe
If you grow our Hatch Chile seeds, then you probably know you use Hatch chiles in pretty much any recipe for great flavor and heat. Here's a twist on one of our favorite salsa recipes, using hot hatch chiles for the heat and flavor, and heirloom tomatoes for an amazing salsa. Hatch Chile Salsa Recipe Ingredients: 4 Cups of Diced Fresh Tomatoes (5-10 Heirloom Tomatoes) ~ or ~ 1 large can of whole tomatoes 1/2 Cup of Hatch Chile, roasted, deseeded & diced (use any heat desired, we lik...
Pepper Plant Pests
Pepper plants are not as prone to pests as other vegetables, but they do occasionally have problems with insect damage. We don't usually worry about a few holes in the leaves, but sometimes pests are more troublesome so we have our tips on pest prevention below. We never advise using insecticides or pesticides in your garden (remember, bugs are bird snacks!) instead, read our natural pest prevention and control tips below to keep your pepper garden healthy and happy: Top Pepper Plant Pest...
Best Vegetables to Grow in Colorado
We think that some of the best vegetables to grow in Colorado are Chile peppers and Tomatoes. We of course love growing all other vegetables as well including zucchini, squash, pumpkins, herbs, eggplant, and cucumbers of course, for making spicy pickles with the hot peppers! But tomatoes and peppers are hard to top. Any Colorado vegetable garden is likely to include several varieties of peppers and tomatoes, they bring such a wide variety of flavors and colors to the garden.Just think about...
Best Seed Catalog for Chile Peppers & Tomatoes
We are so excited to be offering our first-ever Seed Catalog in 2019! This is the BEST Seed Catalog for Chile Pepper Seeds and Tomato Seeds. We have a huge variety of Hatch Chile seeds, New Mexican Chile seeds, Hot Pepper Seeds, the Hottest Pepper Seeds, and Sweet Pepper Seeds. And don't miss our Heirloom Tomato Seeds as well as our Hybrid Tomato Seeds). Check out the catalog below, or download our Seed Catalog PDF, or order a Seed Catalog to be mailed to you in our online store.
New Hatch Chile Seeds
Have you grown our new varieties of Hatch Chile seeds? Our latest favorite for those who like it super hot, is our soon-to-be-famous Rattlesnake Hatch Green Chile Seeds. These wicked little beasts are 4-8" long with thick HOT flesh that is SO delicious roasted. If Hatch Green Lumbre X-Hot is too hot for you, then try this perfect pepper. Its Scoville is reported to reach up to 18,000 SHU, but more often it is much lower near the 10,000 SHU rating. The Hatch Green Rattlesnake has a...
Seed Library
WE LOVE SEED LIBRARIES!Many libraries are starting to offer Seed Libraries, which is a wonderful trend! A seed library is a place where the community can get seeds for free (or sometimes with a nominal fee). Many seed libraries are now opening up in public libraries and community centers, and we love the idea of sharing seeds! Seed Libraries encourage everyone to try to grow their own food, even if their budget is limited. What's also great about a seed library is that you can donate your...
Yellow Jalapeño
Yellow Jalapeño Yellow Jalapeño seeds are easy to grow, and these yellow beauties will certainly please in the garden! Our NuMex Lemon Spice Yellow Jalapeño is a yellow jalapeño that ripens as early as 65 days after germinating – which means you can enjoy these yellow gems earlier than most other peppers! They're great in salsas, stuffed as poppers, on tacos, or any other dish you want to add spice to! These novel Yellow Jalapeños are sure to attract attention as they are so bright an...
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...
Purple Bell Peppers
Looking for Purple Bell Peppers or other Purple Pepper seeds? If you love purple like we do, you always want to plant purple flowers... but did you know you can also plant purple vegetables like Purple Bell Peppers or Purple Tomatoes? Purple is one of the best colors in your garden, it compliments the green leaves and everyone who sees a purple pepper or fruit are delighted! View all our beautiful Ornamental Peppers » If you like hot peppers like us, check out the Bhut Jolokia Purple pe...
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...
Fatalii Salsa Recipe
Fatalii Pepper Salsa Recipe This is a great fruity and spicy salsa with tomatoes, pineapple and the tropical flavored Fatalii Peppers that add a great citrus heat. Fatalii peppers are also famous for making a fruity flavored hot sauce, check out our Easy Fermented Hot Sauce recipe » Fatalii peppers are hard to find at grocery stores, so if you can grow your own, you will have so many that you can share them with friends and dry or freeze some for year-round and winter use. This Fatali...
Hot Pepper Salsa Tasting Party Idea
Salsa Tasting Party If you like salsa like we do, here's an idea: Try our Carolina Reaper Salsa Recipe and other Salsa Recipes, and make three salsas using different hot peppers for each salsa, and then have a salsa tasting party! Make 3 salsas, or more, depending on how many different types of peppers you have to taste. Dried peppers also work great for making salsas, so you can have salsa parties in the off-season months, too! :) Discover our Favorite Salsa Recipes » You could hav...
Hand Pollinate Peppers
Do you need to hand pollinate peppers?If growing outdoors in a pollinator-friendly garden, you shouldn't have any problems with your pepper flowers' pollination. Usually the bees and the breeze pollinate your peppers with great success. If you are finding that your pepper plants keep dropping blossoms without any peppers, below are some tips to keep the peppers coming all summer long: Create a Pollinator Garden:If you want a great harvest of peppers, enlist your pollinator friends!...
Can you grow peppers in London?
Some of our customers ask us, can you grow peppers in London? Sure! Of course you can grow peppers in London and the UK. We have customers growing our chile seeds around the world with great success, from everywhere from Florida to the UK. The trick is to start chile pepper seeds with lots of heat indoors first to get them to germinate quickly, and grow into strong seedlings before planting outside after it warms up to 60-70˚ consistently. Then, make sure to harden them off before planting o...
Mulching Peppers
Did you know that mulching your vegetables is one of the best things you can do for plant health and production? That's right, mulch helps keep the soil moisture in and more consistent, and it also helps cut down on disease (especially on Heirloom tomatoes) as it prevents soil from splashing up on the leaves. If you have a lawn, one of your best free sources of mulch is grass clippings! You can spread them out in your garden beds (make sure not to pile the mulch too close to the stems of...
How to Make Red Pepper Flakes
How to Make Red Pepper Flakes One of our favorite ways to preserve our peppers is to make red pepper flakes. In this simple recipe, you simply dry or dehydrate your peppers and then grind them in a food processor or coffee grinder to create chile flakes (or chile powder if you grind them fine enough). It's super easy and is perfect for all varieties of pepper such as Aleppo Peppers, Chimayo Chile, Guajillo chile, Paprika peppers, Cayenne peppers, Goat Horn Peppers, Thai Dragon peppers, Pa...
