Types of Hot PeppersThere are a ton of different types of hot peppers! Sandia Seed is all about chile peppers, and we carry seeds for over 101 types of peppers from around the world. Try growing a new type of hot pepper this year! We add new varieties each season, so you can grow peppers of the world in your garden! Looking for mild or super spicy peppers or somewhere in-between?View our List of Peppers by Heat » View our full list of all the types of peppers we carry in one place on our online seed catalog »...
Chili Oil RecipeHere is a simple chili oil recipe that is sure to please your tastebuds! Make this chili oil with any fresh or dried hot peppers of your choosing! Traditional hot peppers like Cayenne and Thai Hot Peppers are great for this recipe, but you can also try habanero peppers, or try super hot peppers like the Carolina Reaper or a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion for a super fiery chili oil! You could also try Hatch Red Chiles in oil for a New Mexican twist. The possibilities are endless. Chili Oil Recipe ...
Easiest Peppers to GrowIf you haven't planned a garden yet, now is a great time. We have picked out some of the fastest growing peppers which are also of course the easiest to grow so that you can get your garden growing quickly! Here Is Our Favorites List Of TheEasiest Peppers To Grow: Early Jalapeño Seeds Early Jalapeño - The best pepper for short seasons and cooler climates! These are one of the earliest peppers, and everybody loves jalapeños because they can be prepared in so many different ways. Jalap...
Carolina Reaper Salt RecipeCarolina Reaper Salt Recipe This really easy Carolina Reaper Salt Recipe is delicious on everything! Just 2 Ingredients: 1 cup coarse sea salt 2 tablespoons crushed dried Carolina Reaper peppers – you can also use a blend of any homegrown hot peppers including Tombstone Ghost Peppers, Trinidad Scorpions, or less hot but still spicy Goat Horn Peppers, Cayenne Ring of Fire Peppers, Thai Hot peppers, or you can even make a white spicy salt blend with white hot peppers like the White Peruvi...
How Deep to Plant Pepper Seeds?If you have bought some of our chile pepper seeds, you may be wondering how deep to plant the pepper seeds – and here's the answer: For Chile Pepper seeds, plant each seed a quarter of an inch deep or less. Place one pepper seed into each shallow hole and cover gently with soil. Keep the seeds evenly moist and warm (80-90˚ F) for best and fastest germination, and remember, pepper seeds are often notoriously slow to germinate – they can take anywhere from 7 to 21 days to sprout. Some...
Canned Hot Pepper Salsa RecipeCanned Hot Pepper Salsa Recipe • 6 Cups Tomatoes; cored, chopped and peeled • 2 Cups Chopped Onion • 6 Cups Jalapeño & Hot Peppers*; chopped • Cider vinegar (2 tablespoons per pint, 4 tablespoons per quart jar) • 3 Teaspoons Salt • 3 teaspoons Oregano • 1 Teaspoon Ground cumin • 12+ Garlic cloves – minced • 4+ tablespoons fresh Cilantro, minced • Optional: You can also add peeled & cored Apples to this recipe to give it a bit of sweetness. (See bottom of this post)You...
Easy Fermented Hot Sauce RecipeFermented hot sauce has a complex flavor, and is also probiotic... which is all the rage right now. And, it's so easy to make, you'll wonder why you didn't try it sooner. Find more Fermented Hot Sauce Recipes here » Happy hot saucin'!Sandia Seed's Easy Fermented Hot Sauce Recipe:Time: 15 minutes of prep, plus 3 days to ferment. 1 cup of hot peppers, chopped(use any hot peppers you want, such as the hottest Carolina Reaper, or Goat Horn, Tabasco, Cayenne, Trinidad S...
Best Ornamental PeppersIf you want to grow Ornamental Peppers, Sandia Seed has you covered. We actually think that most chile pepper plants are ornamental, as they have beautiful green leaves, dainty flowers in white and purple, and, when the peppers come in, they turn into vibrant reds, yellows, purples and even white in your garden. View all of our beautiful ornamental pepper seeds »We've recently had a neighbor exclaim: "Wow, these Cayenne peppers are really ornamental!" as she admired the red Goat H...
No Salt Hot Sauce RecipeSo if you're like us, you like to put Hot Sauce on EVERYTHING. If you're worried about your salt intake, and you like vinegar, this No-Salt Hot Pepper Vinegar Sauce is great on food and doesn't add any salt to your diet! It's a great way to spice things up with great flavor without sodium. Sandia Seed's No-Salt Hot Sauce Recipe: 1 glass bottle with cap or cork 1 cup of hot peppers (roughly, use any type of hot pepper, such as Goat Horns, or Cayenne Peppers . You ...
When to Pick PeppersWhen are chile peppers ready to harvest?If you're not sure when to pick peppers, here is our advice: Harvest time depends on the pepper variety. With any variety, you can wait until many peppers fully ripen, or you can also pick many peppers (such as Jalapenos) when they are green once they reach full size. Hatch chiles usually take about 75-85 days before ready for harvest, so be patient as they ripen. Immature Hatch chiles will taste "green" and will be less flavorful and no...
Halloween Peppers25% OFF ANY OF THE PEPPERS IN OUR HALLOWEEN COLLECTION INCLUDING: Ghost Pepper, Reaper, Tombstone, Devil's Tongue, Cayenne Ring of Fire, Hatch Green XHot Lumbre, Thai Dragon, Twilight, and our carving Pumpkins! Use coupon discount code: HALLOWEEN23 in checkout to redeem offer, or click on the button below to have the code automatically added to your cart. Offer expires at midnight on Oct 31, 2023.CLICK HERE TO APPLY DISCOUNT & SHOP SEEDS »
Bird Seed Garden: Sunflower, Echinacea and Hot Peppers!Bird Seed Garden: Sunflowers attract Goldfinches! Grow your own Bird Seed Garden to produce organic bird seed with sunflowers or Echinacea flowers – plus you can grow some super hot peppers to help keep the squirrels and rodents away from your seed mix! What kind of seeds are in bird seed? There are a lot of different kinds of seeds marketed as bird seed from the stores, many include seeds for millet, safflower, and cracked corn – and of course sunflower seeds. We've found that most bir...
Homemade Chili Powder RecipeHomemade Chili Powder Recipe: ½ C Cumin ½ C Clove ½ C Cayenne 1½ C Paprika 1½ C Dried Pasilla 1½ C Dark Chile Powder 1½ C Light Chile Powder ¼ C Oregano ¼ C Garlic Powder 1 Handful Dried Chile de Arbol 1 Handful Dried Guajillo DIRECTIONS: Bring a medium sauce pan up to heat and quick roast your non-powder chiles until fragrant, this brings out the flavors and will enhance the flavor of your Chile powder. Remove from pan and let cool. Once cool, grind Chiles in blender and transfer to a...
2022 Seed CatalogCheck out Sandia Seed's brand new 2022 Seed Catalog that we just designed and got back from the printer! Our 2022 Seed Catalog is packed with seeds for some of your favorites like our Hatch Chile seeds, plus several new peppers of the world, plus organic vegetable seeds and heirloom tomato seeds. Our pepper-packed 2022 Seed Catalog is printed and is now shipping!Check out the 2022 Seed Catalog, it's packed with recipes, growing tips and lots of seeds! Perfect for winter-ti...
No-Peel Canned Salsa with Apples!We have an apple tree, and this year it was loaded with fruit! While we like apple pie, we like salsa better, so we just made the No-Peel version of this Canned Salsa Recipe, below, and we added a few peeled & cored homegrown apples to the batch, for a bit of sweetness. It's spicy and delicious! We simply peeled and cored the four apples and threw them into the food processor along with the tomatoes and chiles. We had some sample tastes before canning, it was delish! We can't wait...
Homegrown Sambal Oelek RecipeHomegrown Sambal Oelek Recipe This delicious spicy condiment is delicious on everything from stir fries to soups to sandwiches or even just with some crackers or chips. Kick it up a notch with hotter peppers, and feel free to mix and match hot peppers for a deeper range of flavor. We like to use whatever hot peppers we have on hand! INGREDIENTS 1 pound of homegrown red chile, washed & de-stemmed(use any kind of red chile you are growing, such as Cayenne peppers, Goat Horn peppers, ripe ...
Fantastic! I will be ordering from Sandiaseed from now on.
Germination for nearly all of my varieties was 3-5 days (95% - 100% success rate). My varieties include: Red Ghost, Carolina Reaper, Trinidad Scorpion, Devils Tongue, Cayenne Ring of Fire, Habenero Red, Yellow Jamaican, Paprika Numex, and Bolivian Rainbow. Another thing that I really appreciated is that each packet seemed to contain 20% more seeds than indicated (each 10 seed pack contained 12 seeds) - Not sure if that is standard but it was a nice bonus.
I've found that when you combine roasted carrots, habaneros, lime juice and garlic, it will make the best hot sauce of your life. I think it's the sweetness and depth of the carrots that make the sauce even better, and pairs perfectly with the habanero heat. I got the inspiration from one of my favorite store-bought hot sauces, Marie Sharp's Habanero hot sauce. Sometimes I add some of your Chef's orange tomatoes too to make more of it, and they also give more flavor to the hot sauce and help tame the heat a bit. I grow these in my garden every year along with your orange habaneros, orange tomatoes and other hot peppers and veggies. Very reliable.
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
Types of Hot Peppers
There are a ton of different types of hot peppers! Sandia Seed is all about chile peppers, and we carry seeds for over 101 types of peppers from around the world. Try growing a new type of hot pepper this year! We add new varieties each season, so you can grow peppers of the world in your garden! Looking for mild or super spicy peppers or somewhere in-between?View our List of Peppers by Heat » View our full list of all the types of peppers we carry in one place on our online seed catalog »...
Chili Oil Recipe
Here is a simple chili oil recipe that is sure to please your tastebuds! Make this chili oil with any fresh or dried hot peppers of your choosing! Traditional hot peppers like Cayenne and Thai Hot Peppers are great for this recipe, but you can also try habanero peppers, or try super hot peppers like the Carolina Reaper or a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion for a super fiery chili oil! You could also try Hatch Red Chiles in oil for a New Mexican twist. The possibilities are endless. Chili Oil Recipe ...
Easiest Peppers to Grow
If you haven't planned a garden yet, now is a great time. We have picked out some of the fastest growing peppers which are also of course the easiest to grow so that you can get your garden growing quickly! Here Is Our Favorites List Of TheEasiest Peppers To Grow: Early Jalapeño Seeds Early Jalapeño - The best pepper for short seasons and cooler climates! These are one of the earliest peppers, and everybody loves jalapeños because they can be prepared in so many different ways. Jalap...
Carolina Reaper Salt Recipe
Carolina Reaper Salt Recipe This really easy Carolina Reaper Salt Recipe is delicious on everything! Just 2 Ingredients: 1 cup coarse sea salt 2 tablespoons crushed dried Carolina Reaper peppers – you can also use a blend of any homegrown hot peppers including Tombstone Ghost Peppers, Trinidad Scorpions, or less hot but still spicy Goat Horn Peppers, Cayenne Ring of Fire Peppers, Thai Hot peppers, or you can even make a white spicy salt blend with white hot peppers like the White Peruvi...
How Deep to Plant Pepper Seeds?
If you have bought some of our chile pepper seeds, you may be wondering how deep to plant the pepper seeds – and here's the answer: For Chile Pepper seeds, plant each seed a quarter of an inch deep or less. Place one pepper seed into each shallow hole and cover gently with soil. Keep the seeds evenly moist and warm (80-90˚ F) for best and fastest germination, and remember, pepper seeds are often notoriously slow to germinate – they can take anywhere from 7 to 21 days to sprout. Some...
Canned Hot Pepper Salsa Recipe
Canned Hot Pepper Salsa Recipe • 6 Cups Tomatoes; cored, chopped and peeled • 2 Cups Chopped Onion • 6 Cups Jalapeño & Hot Peppers*; chopped • Cider vinegar (2 tablespoons per pint, 4 tablespoons per quart jar) • 3 Teaspoons Salt • 3 teaspoons Oregano • 1 Teaspoon Ground cumin • 12+ Garlic cloves – minced • 4+ tablespoons fresh Cilantro, minced • Optional: You can also add peeled & cored Apples to this recipe to give it a bit of sweetness. (See bottom of this post)You...
Easy Fermented Hot Sauce Recipe
Fermented hot sauce has a complex flavor, and is also probiotic... which is all the rage right now. And, it's so easy to make, you'll wonder why you didn't try it sooner. Find more Fermented Hot Sauce Recipes here » Happy hot saucin'!Sandia Seed's Easy Fermented Hot Sauce Recipe:Time: 15 minutes of prep, plus 3 days to ferment. 1 cup of hot peppers, chopped(use any hot peppers you want, such as the hottest Carolina Reaper, or Goat Horn, Tabasco, Cayenne, Trinidad S...
Best Ornamental Peppers
If you want to grow Ornamental Peppers, Sandia Seed has you covered. We actually think that most chile pepper plants are ornamental, as they have beautiful green leaves, dainty flowers in white and purple, and, when the peppers come in, they turn into vibrant reds, yellows, purples and even white in your garden. View all of our beautiful ornamental pepper seeds »We've recently had a neighbor exclaim: "Wow, these Cayenne peppers are really ornamental!" as she admired the red Goat H...
No Salt Hot Sauce Recipe
So if you're like us, you like to put Hot Sauce on EVERYTHING. If you're worried about your salt intake, and you like vinegar, this No-Salt Hot Pepper Vinegar Sauce is great on food and doesn't add any salt to your diet! It's a great way to spice things up with great flavor without sodium. Sandia Seed's No-Salt Hot Sauce Recipe: 1 glass bottle with cap or cork 1 cup of hot peppers (roughly, use any type of hot pepper, such as Goat Horns, or Cayenne Peppers . You ...
When to Pick Peppers
When are chile peppers ready to harvest?If you're not sure when to pick peppers, here is our advice: Harvest time depends on the pepper variety. With any variety, you can wait until many peppers fully ripen, or you can also pick many peppers (such as Jalapenos) when they are green once they reach full size. Hatch chiles usually take about 75-85 days before ready for harvest, so be patient as they ripen. Immature Hatch chiles will taste "green" and will be less flavorful and no...
Halloween Peppers
25% OFF ANY OF THE PEPPERS IN OUR HALLOWEEN COLLECTION INCLUDING: Ghost Pepper, Reaper, Tombstone, Devil's Tongue, Cayenne Ring of Fire, Hatch Green XHot Lumbre, Thai Dragon, Twilight, and our carving Pumpkins! Use coupon discount code: HALLOWEEN23 in checkout to redeem offer, or click on the button below to have the code automatically added to your cart. Offer expires at midnight on Oct 31, 2023.CLICK HERE TO APPLY DISCOUNT & SHOP SEEDS »
Bird Seed Garden: Sunflower, Echinacea and Hot Peppers!
Bird Seed Garden: Sunflowers attract Goldfinches! Grow your own Bird Seed Garden to produce organic bird seed with sunflowers or Echinacea flowers – plus you can grow some super hot peppers to help keep the squirrels and rodents away from your seed mix! What kind of seeds are in bird seed? There are a lot of different kinds of seeds marketed as bird seed from the stores, many include seeds for millet, safflower, and cracked corn – and of course sunflower seeds. We've found that most bir...
Homemade Chili Powder Recipe
Homemade Chili Powder Recipe: ½ C Cumin ½ C Clove ½ C Cayenne 1½ C Paprika 1½ C Dried Pasilla 1½ C Dark Chile Powder 1½ C Light Chile Powder ¼ C Oregano ¼ C Garlic Powder 1 Handful Dried Chile de Arbol 1 Handful Dried Guajillo DIRECTIONS: Bring a medium sauce pan up to heat and quick roast your non-powder chiles until fragrant, this brings out the flavors and will enhance the flavor of your Chile powder. Remove from pan and let cool. Once cool, grind Chiles in blender and transfer to a...
2022 Seed Catalog
Check out Sandia Seed's brand new 2022 Seed Catalog that we just designed and got back from the printer! Our 2022 Seed Catalog is packed with seeds for some of your favorites like our Hatch Chile seeds, plus several new peppers of the world, plus organic vegetable seeds and heirloom tomato seeds. Our pepper-packed 2022 Seed Catalog is printed and is now shipping!Check out the 2022 Seed Catalog, it's packed with recipes, growing tips and lots of seeds! Perfect for winter-ti...
No-Peel Canned Salsa with Apples!
We have an apple tree, and this year it was loaded with fruit! While we like apple pie, we like salsa better, so we just made the No-Peel version of this Canned Salsa Recipe, below, and we added a few peeled & cored homegrown apples to the batch, for a bit of sweetness. It's spicy and delicious! We simply peeled and cored the four apples and threw them into the food processor along with the tomatoes and chiles. We had some sample tastes before canning, it was delish! We can't wait...
Homegrown Sambal Oelek Recipe
Homegrown Sambal Oelek Recipe This delicious spicy condiment is delicious on everything from stir fries to soups to sandwiches or even just with some crackers or chips. Kick it up a notch with hotter peppers, and feel free to mix and match hot peppers for a deeper range of flavor. We like to use whatever hot peppers we have on hand! INGREDIENTS 1 pound of homegrown red chile, washed & de-stemmed(use any kind of red chile you are growing, such as Cayenne peppers, Goat Horn peppers, ripe ...
