What month do you plant pepper seeds?The month you want to plant pepper seeds in really depends on where you're growing! In the West in growing zones 5-6, we like to start pepper seeds in January through March. In most climates, January is a great time for germinating hot pepper seeds, but you may want to start as early as November or as late as February depending on the last frost date in your area. So how do you know when it's the best time to plant pepper seeds? Ideally you want to plant them indoors about 6-8+ week...
SEED SOWERS ENVYSEED SOWERS ENVY: When you wish your plants grown from seed were as big as the nursery-bought ones Right?! Don't worry, your seedlings will catch up with the greenhouse grown ones quickly. Right after we plant, and we see others with larger plants from the local nursery, we always think "How come ours don't look that good? Should I have started earlier? But I don't have room...I wish I had a greenhouse..." Arg, the ambitious gardener's guilt! Well, don'...
Pepper Seeds for PlantingLooking for the best Pepper Seeds for Planting? Check out our huge Peppers of the World collection with over 100 pepper varieties to grow! Our pepper seeds are easy to plant and grow, check out our top 12 tips for planting pepper seeds, and shop for all of our hundreds of pepper seeds. Peppers are the perfect addition to any vegetable garden as they're easy to grow, productive and super tasty – from super hot to sweet! We specialize in New Mexico Chile seeds and Hatch Chile seeds which ar...
Should you soak pepper seeds before planting?It is not necessary to soak pepper seeds prior to planting them, but you certainly can to help encourage faster germination. Simply place pepper seeds in room-temperature water for up to 24 hours to soften the seed coat and break dormancy. However, it is most important to keep them moist and warm – pepper seeds like warm soil for best germination, so we advise you to keep them moist at 80-90˚ F for the best results. We usually start pepper seeds indoors on a seedling heat mat to ensure fastes...
How to Grow Chilli PlantsChillies, chiles, peppers, whatever you want to call them, are easy to grow plants in any vegetable garden. They do like warm weather, so it is best to start them indoors 6-8 weeks before hardening them off and transplanting them outdoors. Chile plants do great in 5 gallon+ pots, and they also grow very well in the ground. Make sure they have well-draining soil, and amend it with homemade compost if possible to keep the plants healthy. Here our our Top 14 Tips on How to Grow Chilli Plants: ...
Can peppers withstand a light frost?Can peppers withstand a light frost? Not usually. Peppers are very tender plants and a light frost will likely kill the plant or at least heavily damage the leaves. Even if the cold doesn't kill the plant outright, it will be damaged and stunted going forward. If a frost is expected, or any temperatures below 45˚ F, we'd recommend covering your pepper plants with a frost blanket, overturned bucket, mini hoop house, water wall or other protection. Or bring them inside if possible. Many...
Sustainable Gardening - Our Top 12 Tips!Happy Earth Day Everyday! Gardening is a great way to be more sustainable. Growing your own food, herbs, and flowers for pollinators and wildlife is a great way to make a difference! Here are our top 12 Tips for Sustainable Gardening: 1. Compost: Recycling your food scraps, paper and yard debris is a great way to reuse and recycle all of that good stuff to turn it into what we call "Gardener's Gold." Compost helps feed your plants with natural nutrients all season long, and i...
How do you care for Jimmy Nardello peppers?Jimmy Nardello pepper plants are easy to grow and care for, and can be started from seed. The sweet pods are delicious and these are relatively fast-growing peppers so you can enjoy them for a long harvest. It is best to start your Jimmy Nardello seeds indoors in temperatures between 80-90˚ F for best germination, we like to use a heat mat to keep them warm until germination. The seeds should be sown indoors 6 to 8 weeks prior to planting outdoors. Use well-draining seed starting mix, and use...
Reseeding the Sweet 16: March MadnessReseeding the Sweet 16: March Madness... We saw this headline on Google News and it took us a double take to realize it wasn't about gardening... not about basketball. haha!! But to honor the thought, here are our Sweet 16 Peppers to start in March: Our Top Picks for the end of March: These pepper seeds are our picks to plant 6-8 weeks before transplanting outdoors after all chance of frost has passed. Some people start their seeds even earlier, sowing seeds indoors in January, Februar...
Zucchini Companion PlantsGot squash bugs? If you plant Nasturtiums with your Zucchini and Squash plants, they are known to help to decrease the number of squash bugs! Plus, the Nasturtiums' leaves, flowers and their seed pods are beautiful and edible, too. Some people pickle the green Nasturtium seedpods to use them like capers. Nasturtium flowers can be added to lettuce salads, both the flowers and the leaves have a nice sweet and peppery horseradish-like flavor. The enchanting flowers also attract pollinators. ...
Discount Seeds: Easter Sale on Yellow Pepper Seeds!HAPPY EASTER! Get 20% off selected Yellow Peppers Use Discount Code: EASTER2024 Click here to shop for the peppers on sale and automatically apply discount code to your cart. Offer good through Monday, April 1, 2024. Looking for more deals?Check out our 50% Off Seeds and Discount Seed Bundles » Happy growing!!
Earth Day Seed Sale!Earth Day Seed Discounts! Get 22% OFF select green peppers and vegetable seeds now thru midnight on Earth Day on Monday, April 22, 2024. Use Discount Code: EARTHDAY2024Celebrate Earth Day all year with our Sustainable Gardening tips »
98% of New Mexico Green Chile is Direct SeededNew Mexico Chile is a warm-season crop that requires a long, frost-free season to produce good-quality, high yields. Almost all NM commercial chile is directly planted by seed into warm fertile soil. Keep them warm! Chiles do not thrive when temperatures are between 40° F and 60° F and can die from a light frost. The optimum period for direct seed planting of chile is between March 1 and June 15th. The early green crop will be ready for harvest about 120 days after planting. The red crop will...
Hot Pepper SeedsIf you're looking for hot pepper seeds, green chile seeds or so-hot-it-will-give-you-hiccups super hot peppers, you've come to the right place. Sandia Seed came to be because we wanted to offer a better variety of pepper seeds to the home gardener. We found that a lot of the New Mexican green chile varieties were not easy to come by for gardeners, so we decided to work with New Mexican farmers to bring their heirloom green chiles and peppers to the home gardeners and urban gardeners o...
NuMex Sandia Select Chile Pepper Seeds are here!The long awaited NuMex Sandia Select pepper seeds are now available from Sandia Seed Company! This new variety has superior flavor, uniform high heat level, better plant and pod uniformity, higher yield and a thick fruit wall. Non-GMO. Approximately 30 seeds per seed packet and also available in bulk 1/2 oz. and 2 oz. quantities. Buy seeds here: NuMex Sandia Select Seeds » This pepper is fantastic! It has good flavor, thick flesh, a nice green color and the production is great. The original ...
Seed Planting InformationIt is easy to start seeds indoors. You will need small containers, filled with soil, water, seeds, warmth, and bright light. Tip: Seeds germinate in half the time with a heated seedling mat under them. Small styrofoam /plastic cups or plastic seedling trays with individual cells work best. Your pots must have drainage holes so water can drain completely out. Fill each cup/cell with at least 3” (up to 5-6” is fine) of bagged potting soil. Moisten the soil completely with water. Tip: Seedling ...
10 Reasons Growing Peppers is Good for Your Health!Did you know that growing green chile, hot peppers & veggies is good for your health? Here's our favorite 10 reasons: Gardening burns calories - up to 330 calories an hour for light gardening work! Gardening helps your heart! Gardening for 30 minutes a few times a week can help reduce heart disease. Gardening reduces stress! Being surrounded by plants improves your health by enhancing your mood Gardening gives meaning to your day – growing vegetables, especially green chile peppers i...
Grow Big Tomatoes!This tomato looks good and smells even better, but I’m not buying it for $6.99/lb! It’s just too easy to grow huge yummy tomatoes all summer long. Start with beef-steak seed varieties like Mortgage Lifter, Big Rainbow, Hillbilly, Pineapple, and Brandywine. Transplant seedlings into larger containers at least twice before moving them to the garden. Transplant your tomatoes outside as early as possible into good soil. Harden them off, set the plants deeply, and protect new transplants with wate...
Plant Spacing in the GardenThere are so many choices when you plant vegetable varieties from seed. Peppers and tomatoes are some of the easiest to grow from seed for transplanting into your home garden. Start seeds indoors 6 to 8 weeks before the date you intend to set peppers and tomatoes into the garden. As the season gets later, your seeds can also be placed directly in the garden after the soil temperature has risen to at least 65°F at night. Plant spacing for peppers is usually the same distance measurement as the...
The New Big Jim Heritage Seed is Now AvailableWe are excited to be the only source to offer the NEW Heritage Big Jim seed. We just acquired this much sought after re-selected 'breeder's seed' for the NuMex Heritage Big Jim of 2016! The plants were grown under covers to prevent cross-pollination and to provide the purest of seed. Breeder's seed is costly and is usually only used to propagate crops for bulk seed sales, but we are offering it to you, the home grower. New Big Jim Heritage is an improved version of the origina...
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!
What month do you plant pepper seeds?
The month you want to plant pepper seeds in really depends on where you're growing! In the West in growing zones 5-6, we like to start pepper seeds in January through March. In most climates, January is a great time for germinating hot pepper seeds, but you may want to start as early as November or as late as February depending on the last frost date in your area. So how do you know when it's the best time to plant pepper seeds? Ideally you want to plant them indoors about 6-8+ week...
SEED SOWERS ENVY
SEED SOWERS ENVY: When you wish your plants grown from seed were as big as the nursery-bought ones Right?! Don't worry, your seedlings will catch up with the greenhouse grown ones quickly. Right after we plant, and we see others with larger plants from the local nursery, we always think "How come ours don't look that good? Should I have started earlier? But I don't have room...I wish I had a greenhouse..." Arg, the ambitious gardener's guilt! Well, don'...
Pepper Seeds for Planting
Looking for the best Pepper Seeds for Planting? Check out our huge Peppers of the World collection with over 100 pepper varieties to grow! Our pepper seeds are easy to plant and grow, check out our top 12 tips for planting pepper seeds, and shop for all of our hundreds of pepper seeds. Peppers are the perfect addition to any vegetable garden as they're easy to grow, productive and super tasty – from super hot to sweet! We specialize in New Mexico Chile seeds and Hatch Chile seeds which ar...
Should you soak pepper seeds before planting?
It is not necessary to soak pepper seeds prior to planting them, but you certainly can to help encourage faster germination. Simply place pepper seeds in room-temperature water for up to 24 hours to soften the seed coat and break dormancy. However, it is most important to keep them moist and warm – pepper seeds like warm soil for best germination, so we advise you to keep them moist at 80-90˚ F for the best results. We usually start pepper seeds indoors on a seedling heat mat to ensure fastes...
How to Grow Chilli Plants
Chillies, chiles, peppers, whatever you want to call them, are easy to grow plants in any vegetable garden. They do like warm weather, so it is best to start them indoors 6-8 weeks before hardening them off and transplanting them outdoors. Chile plants do great in 5 gallon+ pots, and they also grow very well in the ground. Make sure they have well-draining soil, and amend it with homemade compost if possible to keep the plants healthy. Here our our Top 14 Tips on How to Grow Chilli Plants: ...
Can peppers withstand a light frost?
Can peppers withstand a light frost? Not usually. Peppers are very tender plants and a light frost will likely kill the plant or at least heavily damage the leaves. Even if the cold doesn't kill the plant outright, it will be damaged and stunted going forward. If a frost is expected, or any temperatures below 45˚ F, we'd recommend covering your pepper plants with a frost blanket, overturned bucket, mini hoop house, water wall or other protection. Or bring them inside if possible. Many...
Sustainable Gardening - Our Top 12 Tips!
Happy Earth Day Everyday! Gardening is a great way to be more sustainable. Growing your own food, herbs, and flowers for pollinators and wildlife is a great way to make a difference! Here are our top 12 Tips for Sustainable Gardening: 1. Compost: Recycling your food scraps, paper and yard debris is a great way to reuse and recycle all of that good stuff to turn it into what we call "Gardener's Gold." Compost helps feed your plants with natural nutrients all season long, and i...
How do you care for Jimmy Nardello peppers?
Jimmy Nardello pepper plants are easy to grow and care for, and can be started from seed. The sweet pods are delicious and these are relatively fast-growing peppers so you can enjoy them for a long harvest. It is best to start your Jimmy Nardello seeds indoors in temperatures between 80-90˚ F for best germination, we like to use a heat mat to keep them warm until germination. The seeds should be sown indoors 6 to 8 weeks prior to planting outdoors. Use well-draining seed starting mix, and use...
Reseeding the Sweet 16: March Madness
Reseeding the Sweet 16: March Madness... We saw this headline on Google News and it took us a double take to realize it wasn't about gardening... not about basketball. haha!! But to honor the thought, here are our Sweet 16 Peppers to start in March: Our Top Picks for the end of March: These pepper seeds are our picks to plant 6-8 weeks before transplanting outdoors after all chance of frost has passed. Some people start their seeds even earlier, sowing seeds indoors in January, Februar...
Zucchini Companion Plants
Got squash bugs? If you plant Nasturtiums with your Zucchini and Squash plants, they are known to help to decrease the number of squash bugs! Plus, the Nasturtiums' leaves, flowers and their seed pods are beautiful and edible, too. Some people pickle the green Nasturtium seedpods to use them like capers. Nasturtium flowers can be added to lettuce salads, both the flowers and the leaves have a nice sweet and peppery horseradish-like flavor. The enchanting flowers also attract pollinators. ...
Discount Seeds: Easter Sale on Yellow Pepper Seeds!
HAPPY EASTER! Get 20% off selected Yellow Peppers Use Discount Code: EASTER2024 Click here to shop for the peppers on sale and automatically apply discount code to your cart. Offer good through Monday, April 1, 2024. Looking for more deals?Check out our 50% Off Seeds and Discount Seed Bundles » Happy growing!!
Earth Day Seed Sale!
Earth Day Seed Discounts! Get 22% OFF select green peppers and vegetable seeds now thru midnight on Earth Day on Monday, April 22, 2024. Use Discount Code: EARTHDAY2024Celebrate Earth Day all year with our Sustainable Gardening tips »
98% of New Mexico Green Chile is Direct Seeded
New Mexico Chile is a warm-season crop that requires a long, frost-free season to produce good-quality, high yields. Almost all NM commercial chile is directly planted by seed into warm fertile soil. Keep them warm! Chiles do not thrive when temperatures are between 40° F and 60° F and can die from a light frost. The optimum period for direct seed planting of chile is between March 1 and June 15th. The early green crop will be ready for harvest about 120 days after planting. The red crop will...
NuMex Sandia Select Chile Pepper Seeds are here!
The long awaited NuMex Sandia Select pepper seeds are now available from Sandia Seed Company! This new variety has superior flavor, uniform high heat level, better plant and pod uniformity, higher yield and a thick fruit wall. Non-GMO. Approximately 30 seeds per seed packet and also available in bulk 1/2 oz. and 2 oz. quantities. Buy seeds here: NuMex Sandia Select Seeds » This pepper is fantastic! It has good flavor, thick flesh, a nice green color and the production is great. The original ...
10 Reasons Growing Peppers is Good for Your Health!
Did you know that growing green chile, hot peppers & veggies is good for your health? Here's our favorite 10 reasons: Gardening burns calories - up to 330 calories an hour for light gardening work! Gardening helps your heart! Gardening for 30 minutes a few times a week can help reduce heart disease. Gardening reduces stress! Being surrounded by plants improves your health by enhancing your mood Gardening gives meaning to your day – growing vegetables, especially green chile peppers i...
