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  1. Seed Reviews SEED REVIEWS Thank you to all of our seed customers over the years, your continued patronage helps support our small, woman-owned seed business! We love sharing the love of growing chile peppers with people, and appreciate your kind words. Please see just a small sampling of our happy seed customer reviews below and view all of our most recent seed reviews here » ★★★★★ Surprisingly productive "Bought (Guajillo) seeds last year(2024). Started early indoors with heat mat. Didn't ...
  2. Carolina Reaper Seeds - Best Germination We have our high-quality Carolina Reaper seeds for sale! Carolina Reaper peppers are the hottest peppers in the world. People love to grow them to use for hot sauce or Carolina Reaper Salsa. Great Germination:Our Carolina Reaper seeds have great germination, we have had numerous customers report that they have had nearly 100% germination of our Carolina Reaper seeds. Super hot pepper seeds are notoriously slow to sprout, the trick is to keep them warm (80-90˚ F), which ensures a much hi...
  3. Molcajete Mexicano: Great for Hot Pepper Flakes & Salsa Recipes! A molcajete is basically a large volcanic stone mortar & pestle. Molcajetes are often used to prepare Mexican food such as salsa and guacamole. Using a Molcajete is also perfect for grinding up your dried peppers from the garden to make pepper flakes. It's super easy to make hot pepper flakes with your Mexican Molcajete with all varieties of chile peppers – you can make pepper flakes out of super hot peppers like Bhut Jolokia Ghost Peppers, Dorset Naga Peppers, Carolina Reaper Pe...
  4. Harissa Recipe - with Homegrown Hatch Chiles Harissa is a spice mix used in Tunisian cuisine, and can be used on everything from vegetables to soups to rice or couscous. This Harissa recipe uses the famous New Mexican Red Hatch Chiles, which are roasted and peeled to make this delicious spice. 3 fresh* or frozen Hatch Red Chiles (any variety of red chile will do!) 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 tsp coriander seeds 3 tbsp olive oil 1 red onion, chopped 2 tsp tomato paste 6 cloves garlic, chopped 6 hot red chiles, (use super hot peppers like Caro...
  5. National Hot Sauce Day Happy National Hot Sauce Day! Annually on: January 22 Grow your own hot sauce from seeds! Sandia Seed offers a ton of different hot pepper seeds that make for amazing hot sauce. Grow our super hot pepper seeds for wicked hot sauces, or grow our hot pepper seeds for sauces with a milder heat. You can also grow Hatch chile seeds or even sweet pepper seeds and add them into your hot sauce recipes to give the sauce more sweetness, flavor and depth. National Hot Sauce Day is observed annually on...
  6. New Year’s Resolutions for Gardeners Here are some of our favorite Gardener Resolutions to aspire to this coming year! Gardener Resolutions: Build a Compost Bin (or a compost pile!) – Compost is natures FREE fertilizer and works better than anything you can buy. Read more about Peppers & Compost » Plant More Perennials– to feed the birds and the bees and beautify your landscape. What's great about perennials is that they come back bigger and better every year and they also provide some of the earliest blooms for bea...
  7. Cheap Vegetable Seeds Looking for cheap vegetable seeds? For cheap veggie seeds, your first place to stop is our 50% Off Seeds Collection with overstock seeds, so be sure to visit that regularly as we're always rotating out seeds at half off! These are still high quality and viable seeds, we just have an overabundance of them! We also offer free shipping on orders over $30 to sweeten the deal. Nothing beats half off seeds! Plus signup to get an instant discount code for 10% OFF to use on any of our non-disc...
  8. Shishito Recipe If you grow our Shishito seeds, then you know how delicious these amazing Japanese sweet peppers taste! Here's a super simple recipe for your Shishito garden harvest: Ingredients: Shishito Chiles 1-2 Tablespoons of Sesame Oil or Olive Oil Chopped Garlic Cloves (1-3 cloves) Sesame Seeds (1 Teaspoon) Sea Salt (to taste) Heat up a skillet, add olive oil, then throw in the Shishitos, garlic, sesame seeds and sprinkle with sea salt. Fry until slightly charred, then serve! Delicious! Shishit...
  9. Heirloom Tomato & Pepper Seeds Check out all of our delicious Heirloom Tomato and Pepper Seeds you can grow easily in your garden!
  10. How to Grow Carolina Reaper Growing the Carolina Reaper is almost as easy as most other peppers and vegetables, although they do like a warm germination period, and need a long growing season and lots of sun to grow the hottest pods in the world. The Carolina Reaper is a Capsicum chinense strain, and these strains do require a great deal of attention during the germination process. Moisture and a constant and consistent heat range must be maintained for best germination – and even with perfect conditions, every seed ...
  11. Habanero & Green Tomato Salsa Recipe Canned Habanero & Green Tomato Salsa /Sauce Recipe This is a delicious way to use up all your unripe, green tomatoes before the first frost of winter. Don't throw them away! This makes for a great sauce for enchiladas, casseroles and burritos! 10-20+ chopped cored green tomatoes (any size, type, or feel free to use a mix of green tomatoes, just use all the green ones that you have!) 10-20+ Habañeros, Jalapeños or any hot peppers or even super hot peppers (to taste, add a lo...
  12. What I did with one million Jalapeño peppers There were 1 million jalapeños growing in my garden and I did not know what to do with them. Well, it was almost 50 pounds of fresh jalapeños, but who’s counting? This past spring someone told me jalapeño peppers were easy to grow, and I didn’t believe them. Guess what? They are very easy to grow! I grew 6 different kinds of Jalapeño peppers from the Sandia Seed. They ranged in heat from edible Jalapeño Mucho Nacho, Jalapeño M, NuMex Jalmundo, to fire hot Early Jalapeño, and ranged in color f...
  13. Seed Rack Seed Racks from Sandia Seed Are you a garden center or hardware store and you want to sell seeds in your shop? We love working with small businesses who want to sell hot peppers and Hatch chile seeds. Stores in New Mexico especially love selling our Hatch chile varieties so that their customers can grow their own Hatch chiles in their gardens. Plus, if anyone has had New Mexican chile and live anywhere else in the world, these Hatch seeds are a rare sight, so Chile-lovers and Chileheads will ...
  14. Carolina Reaper Pepper Seeds for Sale Are you looking for Carolina Reaper Pepper seeds for sale? The Carolina Reaper pepper is still the champion for being the hottest pepper in the world, according to Guinness World Records. There have been rumors of other peppers contending for being the hottest pepper, including the Dragon's Breath pepper and Pepper X, but these have NOT yet received any official awards for being hotter than the Reaper. We have been trying to grow out smoe Dragon's Breath pepper seeds, however, we are ...
  15. Bulk Seed Store If you are looking for a Bulk Seed Store, Sandia Seed offers a large variety of New Mexican Chiles such as bulk Hatch Chile seeds, plus we sell bulk Hot Pepper seeds and Sweet Pepper Seeds. View our Bulk Seeds » We carry a great selection of seeds in our bulk seed store, such as the famous best-selling Bulk Carolina Reaper Seeds (the hottest pepper in the world), Bulk Trinidad Scorpion Seeds (another super hot pepper), or popular New Mexican chile varieties such as Hatch Green Medium C...
  16. Sichuan Chile Oil Recipe Do you make Chile Oil from your homegrown hot peppers or super hot peppers? This is a great way to use up the dried solids that you strain from the sauce... it's delicious! You can also make it with dried pepper flakes from any hot peppers. We think it's really good with our Goat Horn peppers, Thai Hot Peppers, or Chile de Arbol peppers, but it also tastes great with any hot pepper! Sichuan Chile Oil Recipe 3+ cups peanut oil4-5 cups solids from strained fermented hot sauce (or you ...
  17. 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...
  18. Murphy's Law of Peeling Chile MURPHY'S LAW OF PEELING HATCH CHILE: As soon as your hands are covered in chile juice, your nose will begin to itch, you will want to rub your eyes, and you will have to pee. True. So true. Grow your own Hatch Chile seeds for the freshest green chile you can get!Just be careful when you peel them! :)
  19. Top 15 questions about Bell Peppers We receive many questions about peppers and have written the answers to the most common questions about Bell Peppers here. Answers will include Bell Pepper growth, color, storage and health benefits. View all of our bell pepper seeds » 1. What is the best Bell Pepper variety for my area? Peppers are a warm season crop and need temperatures above 75 degrees throughout their growing season. Higher latitudes and altitudes can extend the start of growing season, wet areas can use raised beds, and...
  20. 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...