FREE SEEDS with PurchaseEXPIRED OFFER: Get a Free Packet of Watermelon seeds to plant in May 2021 when you buy any seeds in our Get Real Gardening Collection! NOTE: This offer is expired, stay tuned and signup for our newsletter for future deals. You can direct sow watermelon seeds, we like to soak them overnight first to help them get nice and saturated before direct sowing in mounds in the garden. Shop now » FUN FACT: We are named Sandia Seed after the Sandia mountains in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sandía mea...
Seed HoardingAND... JUST LIKE THAT I WENT FROM SEED HOARDING, TO BEING PREPARED!;)Perhaps like us, you might hoard seeds! Every year we find ourselves hoarding seeds... well, we decided we're just being prepared, right?! We also share and donate our seeds with seed libraries and at seed swaps and with other gardeners. It's easy to share seeds! So we don't consider it seed hoarding, we are simply prepared, right? We are determined to grow out all of our seeds, but limited garden space foils...
Rainbow PeppersRainbow peppers varieties are great to grow from seed in your garden! We have lots of Ornamental Peppers to bring some rainbows to your garden. One of our favorite Rainbow Peppers includes our NuMex Twilight Pepper. This gorgeous hot pepper is edible, though it hasn't been rated on the Scoville Scale. We love growing it in borders for a burst of rainbow colors, as well as in pots! This gorgeous rainbow pepper plant is very eye-catching in the garden, producing a beautiful array of br...
Buy Hot Pepper SeedsBuy Hot Pepper Seeds from around the world! Sandia Seed offers a huge collection of hot pepper seeds, including Ghost Pepper seeds, the Hottest Peppers in the World including the Carolina Reaper and the new Dragon's Breath Pepper, which is claimed to now be the hottest pepper, but time will tell if it wins the Guinness crown (it hasn't yet!) We also have lots of hot Hatch chile seeds, which are known worldwide for their amazing flavor. They are called Hatch because they are grown in...
3 Peppers You Should GrowThese peppers are a 10 on the "grab your attention" scale. They are interesting plants and you'll be glad you grew them. Fish Pepper This beautiful plant should really go by another name. Flamboyant Fish would be a better way to describe it because it always aspires to be the center of attention. It has a rare feature of variegated two-tone leaves. They are mottled green and white and really make this plant standout. At first they just look like regular green pepper plants, but...
Gardening Gift BasketsLooking for unusual gardening gifts for your Mom, Dad or other family and gardener friends? This organic food garden seed collection is the perfect unusual gift that is sure to please any gardener in your life! It's not exactly a gardening gift basket, but it's even better! It comes with a garden tote that is perfect for collecting veggies in the garden or sharing the harvest, or shopping! The Organic Food Garden Seed Collection is designed as the perfect gift for gardeners! A one...
Dragons Breath PlantsTHERE BE DRAGONS! The Dragon's Breath Pepper is FINALLY HERE!**Sorry, in 2021/2022 we are not currently offering Dragon's Breath seeds due to the unreliability of the strain. Sorry, we just don't want you to grow something that doesn't grow true or consistently! In the meantime, grow some of our reigning champs of hottest peppers such as the hottest Carolina Reaper (It's true, the Carolina Reaper continues to be the official Worlds Hottest Pepper in 2021 going into 2022, ...
How Long do Chilli Plants live?How long do chilli pepper plants live? It really depends on the growing conditions, variety, location, the weather and your growing zone. Pepper plants can live anywhere from 1.5 - 15+ years depending on which species. In tropical climates without cold winters, peppers can live for many years and grow into what you would call small trees or shrubs. Read more below about the lifespans of the different species of peppers: Here are the five major varieties of peppers and their typical lifespa...
Hot Pepper AlcoholHot Pepper Alcohol makes a great holiday gift for friends and family! Who doesn't need a spicy kick in their next mixed drink? So if you grow peppers, why not make some spicy infused alcohol? We like making spicy hot tastiness with lots of hot peppers, even super hot peppers! In the photo above we made a Chocolate Habanero infused vodka. This hot pepper alcohol It will make a delicious killer Bloody Mary! First - Buy a bottle of vodka. Second - Place a small piece of habanero into ...
Where can I buy the hottest hot pepper seeds?Where can you buy the hottest hot pepper seeds? Make sure not to miss our full hot pepper seeds collection from Sandia Seed! We have hundreds of peppers from around the world, including all of the hottest peppers in the world including the famous Carolina Reaper seeds, as well as the new Dragon's Breath Pepper seeds. Our Super Hot Pepper Seeds collection has the hottest peppers in the world! We also have regular Hot Pepper Seeds as well if you like spicy, but not burn-your-face-off sp...
Seed Saving TechniquesSeed saving is easy! Growing from seed is the most economically sustainable way to garden and it has the most potential to produce abundance. Saving seed is easy and it doesn’t take any expertise or special training. There are no mistakes and you might just come up with a new variety. Seeds have the ability to adapt to their local environment and are more ecologically resilient and sustainable when saved. First, start with a self-pollinating crop. Then you do not have to rely on insect or win...
Green Tomato Enchilada SauceGreen Tomato Enchilada Sauce Recipe This is a delicious sauce to use up your green tomatoes at the end of the season and store them for winter enchilada casseroles! You can make as much or as little as you want, depending on how many green tomatoes you have, if you're canning just use 4 Tablespoons per Pint jar, 8 Tablespoons per Quart jar of lime juice to make sure it's acidic enough to be shelf-stable. Of course, you don't need to can this either, you can just refrigerate for 1...
Got Giant Zucchini? Carve them into Jack-o-lanterns!Carve your Zucchini! Save a couple of those giant zucchini to make fun Jack-o-lanterns this Halloween! So if you accidentally grow a giant zucchini, don't throw it away! Big zukes are great for making spicy fritters, stuffed zucchini boats, soups, curries, burritos, casseroles, and so much more. Don't let them go to waste! And, if it's late in the season and you have more than you can eat, save a couple of the big ones to carve into jack-o-lanterns for Halloween! Just cut them i...
Can you leave skin on tomatoes when making sauce?Can you leave skin on tomatoes when making sauce? Yes you can with our no-peel tomato sauce recipe. When you have a ton of fresh homegrown heirloom tomatoes from the garden, save some time and skip the tedious peeling of tomatoes step. Just core, and grind the tomatoes up in a food processor, then cook them down in a pot. This leaves us more time for pickling and gardening. You can can or freeze the sauce in freezer-safe containers for winter use. NO-PEEL TOMATO SAUCE RECIPE:INGREDIENTS:•...
Dragon PeppersGROW DRAGONS IN YOUR GARDEN! We're excited to be offering two new Dragon Pepper seeds for all you chileheads out there! These wicked hot beasts are new to our Peppers of the World collection, and are sure to make great hot sauces and salsas! These two new Dragon Peppers are now for sale*! The Komodo Dragon Pepper is super hot with a Scoville of 1,400,000 – which means it's WICKED HOT! This dragon is sure to please any spice-lover and it will make a great fermented hot sauce. ...
Short Season PeppersGrow Short-Season Peppers! We often wish summer would last forever... that way, we can grow more peppers. For those of us in short-season climates, it's great to grow the fastest growing peppers so you can harvest lots of peppers sooner than later. Even if you live in areas with longer growing seasons, these are also great to grow as they come to harvest sooner – and who doesn't want peppers sooner? Also, be sure to check out our Short-Season Tomatoes » If you have a short gardeni...
Sunscald on PeppersWhite spots on peppers?Do you have peppers with white, rotten spots on them this year? We seem to be having a lot of this on some of the chile peppers on our plants – we suspect it's sunscald combined with the super hot and dry weather we've been having! Regardless, we chop off the bad part and throw it in the compost, and use the rest of the pepper in all sorts of recipes. Nothing goes to waste! Preventing sunscald on peppers:You can plant Bush Beans around your peppers to pro...
Powdery Mildew on ZucchiniGot Powdery Mildew on Zucchini, Squash and Pumpkin Plants? This happens to all our pumpkins, squash, zucchini and cucumber plants every summer late in the season, treatments like milk or baking soda sprays don't seem to help. We usually prune off the worst affected leaves to give it more air circulation, but have learned to accept that this is the natural late-season stage here in the West. So don't worry, the squash, zucchini and pumpkins will still ripen! One thing about powder...
Zero Waste GardeningBest Zero-Waste Gardening Ideas: • Store your veggies in glass dishes! We steam our fresh roasted chiles in our favorite pyrex cooking dish, no plastic needed! Works great, and you can reuse it again and again. Don't have one? Go buy one at a thrift store, they have tons of these beautful, long-lasting dishes that you can use to store cooked vegetables without the use of plastic.Fresh-roasted homegrown green chiles are the BEST!! Any glass dish with glass lid will work, we love ...
NEW Super Hot Pepper Seeds!That's right, we're offering BRAND NEW Super Hot Pepper Seeds in late 2020! Here's a sneak-peek at some BRAND NEW super hot peppers we're getting ready to put on our website... stay tuned!We know you've all been waiting for the famed Dragon's Breath Pepper Seeds, and we finally have acquired a stable strain that is, indeed SUPER FIREY HOT! Stay tuned, we'll be adding them to our website for purchase soon in fall 2020. So if you're looking to gro...
So, as a life long BOC fan and an avid gardener who loves the quality of seeds I’ve always received from Sandia Seeds. I just had to have this shirt. It rocks! I ordered a couple more for some fellow BOC fans as well. Great quality and the graphic is outstanding!
I'm going to grow these every year, they are HOT!! They make great poppers and salsa. Very productive, easy to grow, quick germination and fast growing plants. Thank you for the stellar seeds.
I planted several cultivars from wholesale seed. These were prolific. See all that RED (and green)?!? Looking forward to harvesting in a few days. Thank You Sandia Seed!
I pretty much use Sandia seeds exclusively! A few years ago I just happened to order your Jalapeño M. To me it's the perfect Jalapeño! Really nice size! Perfect heat for what we like! Wonderful flavor with a meatyness that's perfect for many different uses! I make my own Sriracha so I wait for them to turn red. They're one of my base peppers for my sauce! I praise them to all my personal friends and to members of groups that I belong to!
Serrano Hidalgo Seeds fromSandia Seed produce even in the HOT drought of central Illinois this year! I love adding a little Mexican kick to my salsa but also tossing these on the grill! They have great flavor and produce all summer long!
I had looked high & low, and searched the web with many word combinations ‘looking’ specifically for my favorite chili, the Dynamite xx Hot… so I could grow my own. The peppers were sold in Colorado at select places during roasting season, but you couldn’t buy seeds for them… anywhere!
Finally, as luck and persistence would have it, I discovered Sandia Seed Company.
Thank you Sandia! I planted them and had a great crop this year. I plan on growing them every year as well as trying some of their other seeds,
There's just something fun about growing a jalapeno that is light enough in color that some people think it's a banana pepper. LOL! I picked these just for color variety, and I'm very pleased that my plants have been loaded with them all season! We donated about 50 lbs of mixed peppers this year from our garden and I still had enough to freeze some and can more jars of recipes than we'll probably be able to use before next season. All my peppers were from Sandia Seed Company. I've never had such great pepper production before using these seeds!!
This spinach germinated well, and produced way more spinach than I'd initially expected. It grew really well, was slow to bolt in the summer, and has a really nice mild flavor for salads or steamed.
This was my first time growing these and I will definitely be growing them from now on. Great germination and very sturdy plants that have withstood some really high winds. Huge long peppers that are excellent green or red, very easy to peel skin.
Growing these in Florida, (Recent transplant of NM).
Lovely peppers. Took a couple weeks is all and wow! I have several budding; 2 large enough to nickname. They're still in their infancy, but I can tell they are going to be great! Love the seeds!
FREE SEEDS with Purchase
EXPIRED OFFER: Get a Free Packet of Watermelon seeds to plant in May 2021 when you buy any seeds in our Get Real Gardening Collection! NOTE: This offer is expired, stay tuned and signup for our newsletter for future deals. You can direct sow watermelon seeds, we like to soak them overnight first to help them get nice and saturated before direct sowing in mounds in the garden. Shop now » FUN FACT: We are named Sandia Seed after the Sandia mountains in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sandía mea...
Seed Hoarding
AND... JUST LIKE THAT I WENT FROM SEED HOARDING, TO BEING PREPARED!;)Perhaps like us, you might hoard seeds! Every year we find ourselves hoarding seeds... well, we decided we're just being prepared, right?! We also share and donate our seeds with seed libraries and at seed swaps and with other gardeners. It's easy to share seeds! So we don't consider it seed hoarding, we are simply prepared, right? We are determined to grow out all of our seeds, but limited garden space foils...
Rainbow Peppers
Rainbow peppers varieties are great to grow from seed in your garden! We have lots of Ornamental Peppers to bring some rainbows to your garden. One of our favorite Rainbow Peppers includes our NuMex Twilight Pepper. This gorgeous hot pepper is edible, though it hasn't been rated on the Scoville Scale. We love growing it in borders for a burst of rainbow colors, as well as in pots! This gorgeous rainbow pepper plant is very eye-catching in the garden, producing a beautiful array of br...
Buy Hot Pepper Seeds
Buy Hot Pepper Seeds from around the world! Sandia Seed offers a huge collection of hot pepper seeds, including Ghost Pepper seeds, the Hottest Peppers in the World including the Carolina Reaper and the new Dragon's Breath Pepper, which is claimed to now be the hottest pepper, but time will tell if it wins the Guinness crown (it hasn't yet!) We also have lots of hot Hatch chile seeds, which are known worldwide for their amazing flavor. They are called Hatch because they are grown in...
3 Peppers You Should Grow
These peppers are a 10 on the "grab your attention" scale. They are interesting plants and you'll be glad you grew them. Fish Pepper This beautiful plant should really go by another name. Flamboyant Fish would be a better way to describe it because it always aspires to be the center of attention. It has a rare feature of variegated two-tone leaves. They are mottled green and white and really make this plant standout. At first they just look like regular green pepper plants, but...
Gardening Gift Baskets
Looking for unusual gardening gifts for your Mom, Dad or other family and gardener friends? This organic food garden seed collection is the perfect unusual gift that is sure to please any gardener in your life! It's not exactly a gardening gift basket, but it's even better! It comes with a garden tote that is perfect for collecting veggies in the garden or sharing the harvest, or shopping! The Organic Food Garden Seed Collection is designed as the perfect gift for gardeners! A one...
Dragons Breath Plants
THERE BE DRAGONS! The Dragon's Breath Pepper is FINALLY HERE!**Sorry, in 2021/2022 we are not currently offering Dragon's Breath seeds due to the unreliability of the strain. Sorry, we just don't want you to grow something that doesn't grow true or consistently! In the meantime, grow some of our reigning champs of hottest peppers such as the hottest Carolina Reaper (It's true, the Carolina Reaper continues to be the official Worlds Hottest Pepper in 2021 going into 2022, ...
How Long do Chilli Plants live?
How long do chilli pepper plants live? It really depends on the growing conditions, variety, location, the weather and your growing zone. Pepper plants can live anywhere from 1.5 - 15+ years depending on which species. In tropical climates without cold winters, peppers can live for many years and grow into what you would call small trees or shrubs. Read more below about the lifespans of the different species of peppers: Here are the five major varieties of peppers and their typical lifespa...
Hot Pepper Alcohol
Hot Pepper Alcohol makes a great holiday gift for friends and family! Who doesn't need a spicy kick in their next mixed drink? So if you grow peppers, why not make some spicy infused alcohol? We like making spicy hot tastiness with lots of hot peppers, even super hot peppers! In the photo above we made a Chocolate Habanero infused vodka. This hot pepper alcohol It will make a delicious killer Bloody Mary! First - Buy a bottle of vodka. Second - Place a small piece of habanero into ...
Where can I buy the hottest hot pepper seeds?
Where can you buy the hottest hot pepper seeds? Make sure not to miss our full hot pepper seeds collection from Sandia Seed! We have hundreds of peppers from around the world, including all of the hottest peppers in the world including the famous Carolina Reaper seeds, as well as the new Dragon's Breath Pepper seeds. Our Super Hot Pepper Seeds collection has the hottest peppers in the world! We also have regular Hot Pepper Seeds as well if you like spicy, but not burn-your-face-off sp...
Seed Saving Techniques
Seed saving is easy! Growing from seed is the most economically sustainable way to garden and it has the most potential to produce abundance. Saving seed is easy and it doesn’t take any expertise or special training. There are no mistakes and you might just come up with a new variety. Seeds have the ability to adapt to their local environment and are more ecologically resilient and sustainable when saved. First, start with a self-pollinating crop. Then you do not have to rely on insect or win...
Green Tomato Enchilada Sauce
Green Tomato Enchilada Sauce Recipe This is a delicious sauce to use up your green tomatoes at the end of the season and store them for winter enchilada casseroles! You can make as much or as little as you want, depending on how many green tomatoes you have, if you're canning just use 4 Tablespoons per Pint jar, 8 Tablespoons per Quart jar of lime juice to make sure it's acidic enough to be shelf-stable. Of course, you don't need to can this either, you can just refrigerate for 1...
Got Giant Zucchini? Carve them into Jack-o-lanterns!
Carve your Zucchini! Save a couple of those giant zucchini to make fun Jack-o-lanterns this Halloween! So if you accidentally grow a giant zucchini, don't throw it away! Big zukes are great for making spicy fritters, stuffed zucchini boats, soups, curries, burritos, casseroles, and so much more. Don't let them go to waste! And, if it's late in the season and you have more than you can eat, save a couple of the big ones to carve into jack-o-lanterns for Halloween! Just cut them i...
Can you leave skin on tomatoes when making sauce?
Can you leave skin on tomatoes when making sauce? Yes you can with our no-peel tomato sauce recipe. When you have a ton of fresh homegrown heirloom tomatoes from the garden, save some time and skip the tedious peeling of tomatoes step. Just core, and grind the tomatoes up in a food processor, then cook them down in a pot. This leaves us more time for pickling and gardening. You can can or freeze the sauce in freezer-safe containers for winter use. NO-PEEL TOMATO SAUCE RECIPE:INGREDIENTS:•...
Dragon Peppers
GROW DRAGONS IN YOUR GARDEN! We're excited to be offering two new Dragon Pepper seeds for all you chileheads out there! These wicked hot beasts are new to our Peppers of the World collection, and are sure to make great hot sauces and salsas! These two new Dragon Peppers are now for sale*! The Komodo Dragon Pepper is super hot with a Scoville of 1,400,000 – which means it's WICKED HOT! This dragon is sure to please any spice-lover and it will make a great fermented hot sauce. ...
Short Season Peppers
Grow Short-Season Peppers! We often wish summer would last forever... that way, we can grow more peppers. For those of us in short-season climates, it's great to grow the fastest growing peppers so you can harvest lots of peppers sooner than later. Even if you live in areas with longer growing seasons, these are also great to grow as they come to harvest sooner – and who doesn't want peppers sooner? Also, be sure to check out our Short-Season Tomatoes » If you have a short gardeni...
Sunscald on Peppers
White spots on peppers?Do you have peppers with white, rotten spots on them this year? We seem to be having a lot of this on some of the chile peppers on our plants – we suspect it's sunscald combined with the super hot and dry weather we've been having! Regardless, we chop off the bad part and throw it in the compost, and use the rest of the pepper in all sorts of recipes. Nothing goes to waste! Preventing sunscald on peppers:You can plant Bush Beans around your peppers to pro...
Powdery Mildew on Zucchini
Got Powdery Mildew on Zucchini, Squash and Pumpkin Plants? This happens to all our pumpkins, squash, zucchini and cucumber plants every summer late in the season, treatments like milk or baking soda sprays don't seem to help. We usually prune off the worst affected leaves to give it more air circulation, but have learned to accept that this is the natural late-season stage here in the West. So don't worry, the squash, zucchini and pumpkins will still ripen! One thing about powder...
Zero Waste Gardening
Best Zero-Waste Gardening Ideas: • Store your veggies in glass dishes! We steam our fresh roasted chiles in our favorite pyrex cooking dish, no plastic needed! Works great, and you can reuse it again and again. Don't have one? Go buy one at a thrift store, they have tons of these beautful, long-lasting dishes that you can use to store cooked vegetables without the use of plastic.Fresh-roasted homegrown green chiles are the BEST!! Any glass dish with glass lid will work, we love ...
NEW Super Hot Pepper Seeds!
That's right, we're offering BRAND NEW Super Hot Pepper Seeds in late 2020! Here's a sneak-peek at some BRAND NEW super hot peppers we're getting ready to put on our website... stay tuned!We know you've all been waiting for the famed Dragon's Breath Pepper Seeds, and we finally have acquired a stable strain that is, indeed SUPER FIREY HOT! Stay tuned, we'll be adding them to our website for purchase soon in fall 2020. So if you're looking to gro...
