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Salsa Garden SALSA GARDEN If you're like us, you can never get enough salsa! So why not grow your own salsa garden? Looking for salsa garden seeds? We have you covered with over 100 peppers from around the world, plus lots of heirloom tomatoes, too, that make the BEST salsa ever! Grow your own salsa garden! Salsa Garden Kit Check out our salsa garden kit and grow your own salsa! Our Salsa Garden Seeds are perfect for any salsa-lover. Our fabulous Salsa Garden Kit has four packets of seeds to get your...

Pruning young Tomato Plants When growing tomato seeds, we think that Pruning young tomato plants is important to help them grow into the most productive tomato plants in the long run. Here's a video of us pruning a young tomato plant. While it's a simple thing, it's still not easy for us to prune these off emotionally, but it's totally worth it! Clipping off First Flowers of Tomatoes will help them put more energy into growing bigger! It's hard to do but it is good to do it! After they grow l...

Seed Contest: Spring 2023 THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED! We love seeing your photos! Congratulations to Cat & Angela, our two lucky winners of a $25 GIFT CARD & SEED CATALOG! ORIGINAL CONTEST DEETS: Here’s how to enter: 1. Post a photo of your Sandia Seed packets, stickers, gardens & harveston Facebook, TikTok, or Instagram 2. Add hashtag #sandiaseed in your post’s description for a chance to win! Even though this contest is over, we still love seeing your pepper and vegetable posts, so tag us with #san...

Ornamental Hot Peppers Ornamental hot peppers are a great addition to any garden. They add beauty and spice and everything nice! As a vegetable gardener, you probably want to have a beautiful veggie garden! So why not grow some ornamental peppers to add pops of color and beauty! We have a whole selection of ornamental hot peppers that will look great in your landscape, plus you can harvest them for spicing up salsas, hot sauces, sandwiches, burgers, burritos, soups, stews, stir fries, you name it! The rainb...

Starting Seeds to Trade at Plant Swaps Starting Seeds to Trade at Plant Swaps One of the great things about starting seeds is you often end up with many more seedlings that you know what to do with. There is nothing better than sharing your beloved seedlings with other gardeners. Get together with your gardening neighbors and friends to swap – or join a local plant swap to share your extras and also adopt a few seedlings to grow something new! Many libraries, local Wild Ones Chapters, gardening clubs, and community gardens host f...

Seed Donations We love providing seed donations to Seed Libraries! We are thankful for organizations and groups that are helping their community through seed libraries and other seed sharing opportunities. Every year we donate lots of seeds to seed libraries, non-profits and community gardens over the years. We offer our seed donations in October each year. Do you know of a non-profit or seed library in your city that needs seeds? Have them contact us in September/October at support@sandiaseed.com to see i...

What are the best peppers to grow indoors? We recently had a customer ask: What is a good pepper to grow indoors? Many peppers can grow great indoors if you have the space and good lighting! If you have limited space, we think that the best pepper plants for indoor growing are smaller peppers such as Pequins, Chiltepins, Habaneros, Mini Bell Peppers, Aji, Carolina Reapers, Thai peppers, or small ornamental peppers like Fire and Ice. Of course, don't limit yourself to just these peppers, you can really grow any peppers indoors if y...

Best Wholesale Seed Companies Looking for the best wholesale seeds suppliers? Sandia Seed offers all of our seed packets for Wholesale and we also sell bulk seeds. We're a reputable small seed company and have over 100 peppers of the world plus lots of tomato and vegetable seeds, too.Get 50% Off an Initial Order of $300 or more! Wholesale Seed customers receive 50% off your first order over $300 – Learn how »We also have beautiful Wholesale Seed Displays and Seed Racks so that you can show off the colorful packets in ...

TOMATO SEEDS ON SALE! Enjoy homegrown salsa sooner this year with our Happy New Year 15% Off Sale on our Early Tomato varieties with discount code: NEWYEAR2024 ... OUR TOP PICKS FOR EARLY TOMATOES: Chocolate CherryA truly black cherry tomato that is sweet, delicious, and irresistible and starts to harvest in just 65 days! Gardener's DelightThis old German heirloom cherry tomato produces extra sweet bite-size fruits early and continue to produce all summer long. GlacierExpect higher-than-average yields of redd...

Start Your Own Garden from Seed Spring fever stirs garden dreams. As you ponder the projects you will tackle this year in your yard, consider trading garden center transplants for homegrown seedlings. There are endless good reasons to start your own seeds. Here are just a few: Seeds guarantee the best selection – Garden centers sell a specific product line. If the plant you want is not on the roster, you cannot get it. Sow your own seeds, and you will pick from a broad selection of herbs, vegetables, and flowers. You can sa...

Start Cilantro Seeds Now January-April are good months to sow cilantro seeds. You can sow them indoors but we find it's even better to sow them outdoors in large pots, and they will germinate when ready. Cilantro doesn't like to be transplanted once it starts growing deeper roots. And, since Cilantro is very frost resistant, it will sprout when the outdoor conditions are right, and grow slowly until it warms up in February/March/April/May depending on where you live and then it will take off! Cilantro really ...

Strengthen Seedlings Before Planting Before your seedlings graduate from indoor growing conditions to the planting bed, they need to acclimate to outdoor growing conditions. The process of transitioning seedlings from indoor conditions to the outdoor realities of wind, cold, and direct sun is called hardening off. Tackle the hardening off process slowly, over the course of a week or two, and you will have sturdy seedlings ready to withstand whatever nature throws at them. If you rush the process, and you could scorch, damage, or...

Peppers of the World Grow Peppers of the World with Sandia Seed! At Sandia Seed Company we love our green chile and are proud to offer the best selection New Mexican chile seeds in the world. In 2008, we were founded on the idea that seeds for green chile peppers should be available for everyone. So, during the past 15 years, we have grown from our original six green chile seed choices to now over twenty peppers from New Mexico. In 2024, our complete Seed Catalog has a total over 100 specialty peppers of the w...

Seed Starting Mistakes Starting seeds indoors is a great way to jump-start your garden. Whether or not you have experience starting seeds, you will improve your success by avoiding these common errors.    Seed-Starting Mistake #1: Starting Too Soon In many regions, sowing seeds gives you a chance to get your hands dirty when it is too cold to garden outdoors. Do not start your seeds too soon. Most plants are ready to shift into the great outdoors in 4-6 weeks. Seed-Starting Mistake #2: Planting Too Deep Read seed p...

Tips for early season tomato growing There are several things you can do to help ensure an early tomato harvest: Choose an early maturing variety: Below is a chart with the earliest tomatoes Sandia Seed Company offers for early season success. The warmer the soil, the better: Consider laying black or red plastic over the planting area. This will warm the soil, and the red plastic reflects UV light up onto the undersides of the tomato leaves, which helps with photosynthesis. Grow your tomatoes in a raised bed garden: The so...

Best Peppers to Grow Indoors Best Peppers to Grow Indoors Want to grow peppers indoors over the winter months? Or maybe year-round? It is possible. Many pepper varieties can live for many years if not exposed to frost. It is important to have good lighting for your indoor peppers. A sunny window in the winter is not likely enough going to provide enough hours of light to keep the pepper plant growing. Many indoor growers keep pepper plants under florescent or led lights to keep them growing and producing over the winter ...

Compost Pumpkins! Did you grow pumpkins this year for Halloween jack-o-lanterns? Get some extra life out of your pumpkins and compost them! Your garden soil will thank you next spring when you reap the compost harvest. Are pumpkins good to compost?Yes, they are! Pumpkins are compostable, seeds and all. Used jack-o-lanterns make the best compost and break down quickly into nutrient-rich fertilizer for your garden.How long does it take for a pumpkin to compost?Not long! Whole pumpkins can take 8-12 weeks to sta...

Green Chile Thanksgiving Recipes Here are a few of our favorite Green Chile Thanksgiving Recipes that will spice up your day of thanks with family and friends. These twists on some Thanksgiving classics will surely be the favorite dishes on the table this year! Plus, they make for some awesome leftovers to enjoy all holiday weekend long. Hatch Green Chile Gravy Recipe »What are mashed potatoes without gravy? This spicy green chile gravy is the perfect compliment to homemade mashed potatoes. You can also go Christmas-sty...

Seed Reviews Contest THIS CONTEST HAS NOW ENDED. Congratulations to our three winners: • Wendy R.• Cat M.Gary Q. Thank you to everyone for your seed reviews! 🌶️🌶️🌶️ORIGINAL CONTEST: Review any of our seeds for a chance to win a $25 Gift Card Thank you to all of our seed customers over the years, your continued patronage and reviews really helpsupport our small seed company! We will pick 3 Lucky Gift Card winners on Jan 15, 2025. Step 1:Review our Seeds » Just click on any seed variety, and on the right-hand s...

Pepper X Looking for Pepper X seeds? Pepper X is the new Guinness World Record holder for being the world's hottest pepper. But unfortunately, Ed Currie, Pepper X's creator, is NOT selling any seeds so they are not yet available to grow. According to the creator, Pepper X is a patented variety and Pepper X seeds are not going to be available.You can buy his hot sauces with the Pepper X, but not any seeds, plants or pods. He's keeping his baby close for now. Read more about Pepper X, inclu...