Carolina Reaper T-shirtCheck out Sandia Seed's Carolina Reaper t-shirt – "Don't fear the Reaper" – it's a perfect shirt for people who love spicy! With cool skull graphics, it's an attention grabber, too. This Reaper shirt will help you so you can talk about Carolina Reaper and other chiles with all your friends and family whenever they ask about your shirt. ;) Lucky for you, maybe not as much for them, unless their chileheads, too.Buy this Carolina Reaper T-Shirt »
Garden MemesCheck out our Garden Memes for those who love gardening! I googled my symptoms and it turns out I’m past due for dilly dallying in the garden. 😄 Learn to identify seedlings in the Cucurbitaceae family by their first set of leaves. 😄Garden Meme: If you're not happy single, you won't be happy married. Happiness comes from gardening, not relationships. What did you do this weekend? Plant people: Gardened. August 8th is National Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch D...
Long Hot PeppersLooking for long hot peppers? We have an assortment of spicy long peppers that are a great addition to your pepper and vegetable garden!One of our favorite long hot peppers is the Goat Horn Hot Pepper. It is quite prolific, and has great red color when fully mature. Here are some photos of a loaded down plant. It can be quite pretty in pots too, larger 5+ gallon pots are best. For other long hot peppers, you can also try growing Cayenne Pepper seeds; or Chile de Arbol seeds, with their b...
Homemade Marinated Piquillo Peppers RecipePiquillo Peppers are amazingly delicious, they have a spicy sweet smoky and almost buttery flavor when simply roasted, and marinated with salt and olive oil. Piquillo peppers are hard to find, because they received a European PDO (Protected Denomination of Origin) and cannot be commercially grown outside their Navarra, Spain region. But that doesn't mean you can't grow them in your home garden! Piquillo seeds can be difficult to germinate like many peppers, for best success, keep them...
Best Seed Catalog for Chile Peppers & TomatoesWe are so excited to be offering our first-ever Seed Catalog in 2019! This is the BEST Seed Catalog for Chile Pepper Seeds and Tomato Seeds. We have a huge variety of Hatch Chile seeds, New Mexican Chile seeds, Hot Pepper Seeds, the Hottest Pepper Seeds, and Sweet Pepper Seeds. And don't miss our Heirloom Tomato Seeds as well as our Hybrid Tomato Seeds). Check out the catalog below, or download our Seed Catalog PDF, or order a Seed Catalog to be mailed to you in our online store.
Green Chile Recipe with Collard GreensIt's a great time of year to make some Green Chile stew! Do you ever add extras into your green chile stews like kale, collards, spinach, zucchini, squash, tomatillos, tomatoes, etc? We love to sneak in lots of extra flavor, vitamins and fiber with the deliciousness of homegrown green chile. Garden Green Chile Stew Recipe for Crockpot Here's a rough recipe (add whatever you want!): Ingredients: Any variety of Roasted green chiles, peeled and chopped Onions (chopped green onions...
Are Shishito Peppers hot?Are Shishito Peppers hot?For the most part, Shishito Peppers are quite mild. But occasionally, they'll be a spicier Shishito, whether green or red. They say that one out of every 10-20 shishito peppers will get a little hotter than usual. These "spicy Shishitos" don't reach even a mild jalapeño in heat, but enough to spice up your tastebuds! Shishitos pepper seeds are surprisingly easy to grow – they are very prolific, and can be grown in containers or gardens alike. The 24...
September VegetablesIn the West, September means that tomatoes are FINALLY ripening, including all the fat juicy heirlooms you've been waiting all summer for. It also is a great season for harvesting chiles, which are usually loaded with chile peppers in September. And of course, you probably have lots of other vegetables in abundance such as zucchini, tomatillos squash, cucumbers, eggplants, kale, collard greens, herbs and more. What should you do with your harvest? Make fresh meals every night! Here are a...
Pumpkin Spice ain't got nothing on Green ChilePumpkin Spice ain't got nothing on Green ChileTRUTH! :) The smell and flavor of roasted green chile is amazing! We'd take green chile over pumpkin spice any day. You?! Grow your own Green Chile Seeds »View more of our Chile Memes » Happy growing!
Chocolate, White, Yellow and Red Hot Sauce RecipeHot Sauce Recipe: Cut peppers in half (use about 30 super hot peppers)1 1/2 Cups White vinegar1/2 tsp. Salt1 tsp. Minced Garlic Combine all ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil for 10 minutes. Transfer ingredients to a blender and blend. Will make roughly two 8oz jars. Enjoy! Store in the fridge. Try this with Chocolate Habaneros, White Habaneros, any of of our Yellow Super Hots, or any other hot peppers like Jalapenos, Ghost Chiles, etc.
Pepper Plant PestsPepper plants are not as prone to pests as other vegetables, but they do occasionally have problems with insect damage. We don't usually worry about a few holes in the leaves, but sometimes pests are more troublesome so we have our tips on pest prevention below. We never advise using insecticides or pesticides in your garden (remember, bugs are bird snacks!) instead, read our natural pest prevention and control tips below to keep your pepper garden healthy and happy: Top Pepper Plant Pest...
Chilli Seeds for SaleSandia Seed offers a huge selection of chilli seeds for sale. We sell chilli seeds to gardeners and growers around the world. While we specialize in Hatch Chile seeds from New Mexico, we also carry chilli seeds from Trinidad, Mexico, Spain, India, Africa, you name it! If you like to grow chilli seeds in your garden, make sure to check out our huge range of chilli seeds including our amazing rare pepper seeds from around the world, or shop for our chilli seeds for sale by different seed collec...
Best Vegetables to Grow in ColoradoWe think that some of the best vegetables to grow in Colorado are Chile peppers and Tomatoes. We of course love growing all other vegetables as well including zucchini, squash, pumpkins, herbs, eggplant, and cucumbers of course, for making spicy pickles with the hot peppers! But tomatoes and peppers are hard to top. Any Colorado vegetable garden is likely to include several varieties of peppers and tomatoes, they bring such a wide variety of flavors and colors to the garden.Just think about...
Hottest New Mexico Chile SeedsThe hottest green chile seeds available are sold here at Sandia Seed Company. They are ranked by taste tests of the foods we prepare every year with them, and not their official Scoville heat units. #1 Hottest New Mexico Green Chile is the Rattlesnake Chile.The super hot Rattlesnake Green Chile is reported to reach up to 18,000 Scoville Heat Rating! However, often it is much lower near the 10,000 SHU rating, so while it can be our hottest, it's not always as hot as 18,000 SHU. To get it...
New Hatch Chile SeedsHave you grown our new varieties of Hatch Chile seeds? Our latest favorite for those who like it super hot, is our soon-to-be-famous Rattlesnake Hatch Green Chile Seeds. These wicked little beasts are 4-8" long with thick HOT flesh that is SO delicious roasted. If Hatch Green Lumbre X-Hot is too hot for you, then try this perfect pepper. Its Scoville is reported to reach up to 18,000 SHU, but more often it is much lower near the 10,000 SHU rating. The Hatch Green Rattlesnake has a...
Discount SeedsSandia Seed offers lots of Discount Seeds so you can grow more peppers in your garden! Check out our 50% OFF SEEDS:A rotating selection of our seeds that change regularly so check back often for great deals on lots of our varieties. Shown above are our December 2022 deals! Check out our Discount Seeds including our Food Garden Seeds Gift Set, plus 3-Packs with three popular pepper seeds – with a thrifty 15% seed discount. No promo codes or coupon codes needed! We put together t...
Seed Catalog for the Independent Garden Center Industry ShowWe're super excited to be at the IGC Show (Independent Garden Center Industry Show) this week! What a great group of people in the gardening world. This garden center show is from August 13 - 15, 2019 in Lakeside / McCormick, Chicago. We went last year and met lots of garden centers and nurseries all over the country. Some of them really have some amazing booths! Check out our FIRST EVER SEED CATALOG we just had printed for the show! Signup to find out how you can get a copy here »We ...
Chili SeedsSandia Seed has the best chili seeds from around the world! We specialize in New Mexico Hatch Chile seed varieties including Green Chile seeds and Red Chile seeds. If you haven't had New Mexican green chile, you're missing out! While technically you have to grow these green chiles in the Hatch region of New Mexico to call them "Hatch chiles," we still think they taste amazing wherever they are grown, from California to Florida to Japan and beyond! Check out these farmers growi...
Hatch Chile Seeds - Grow your own!Grow your own Hatch Chiles from seed!Hatch Chiles are known worldwide for their incredible flavor. They are called Hatch because they are grown in the Hatch Valley area in southwestern New Mexico. All our Hatch chile seeds are grown in this area, and all our New Mexican pod-type chile seeds are grown in the state of New Mexico. If you have ever lived in New Mexico or tasted Hatch green chile then you know you can’t live without it! Well maybe you’ll live, but wouldn’t it be great to have them...
Growing Chile Seeds in JapanWe were excited to get these photos from one of our seed customers, Ryoichi A., in a small village of rural Osaka, Japan. They have been growing our NuMex Heritage Big Jims and other chiles in their beautiful fields. They recently ordered our Aji Limo Lemon Drop Pepper seeds, Serrano Seeds, Poblano Seeds, Red Cherry Hot Seeds, Carolina Reaper Seeds (the hottest pepper in the world!), Tabasco Seeds, NuMex Trick or Treat Habanero seeds (no heat), White Bhut Jolokia seeds, Peach Bhut Jolokia se...
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!
Carolina Reaper T-shirt
Check out Sandia Seed's Carolina Reaper t-shirt – "Don't fear the Reaper" – it's a perfect shirt for people who love spicy! With cool skull graphics, it's an attention grabber, too. This Reaper shirt will help you so you can talk about Carolina Reaper and other chiles with all your friends and family whenever they ask about your shirt. ;) Lucky for you, maybe not as much for them, unless their chileheads, too.Buy this Carolina Reaper T-Shirt »
Garden Memes
Check out our Garden Memes for those who love gardening! I googled my symptoms and it turns out I’m past due for dilly dallying in the garden. 😄 Learn to identify seedlings in the Cucurbitaceae family by their first set of leaves. 😄Garden Meme: If you're not happy single, you won't be happy married. Happiness comes from gardening, not relationships. What did you do this weekend? Plant people: Gardened. August 8th is National Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch D...
Long Hot Peppers
Looking for long hot peppers? We have an assortment of spicy long peppers that are a great addition to your pepper and vegetable garden!One of our favorite long hot peppers is the Goat Horn Hot Pepper. It is quite prolific, and has great red color when fully mature. Here are some photos of a loaded down plant. It can be quite pretty in pots too, larger 5+ gallon pots are best. For other long hot peppers, you can also try growing Cayenne Pepper seeds; or Chile de Arbol seeds, with their b...
Homemade Marinated Piquillo Peppers Recipe
Piquillo Peppers are amazingly delicious, they have a spicy sweet smoky and almost buttery flavor when simply roasted, and marinated with salt and olive oil. Piquillo peppers are hard to find, because they received a European PDO (Protected Denomination of Origin) and cannot be commercially grown outside their Navarra, Spain region. But that doesn't mean you can't grow them in your home garden! Piquillo seeds can be difficult to germinate like many peppers, for best success, keep them...
Best Seed Catalog for Chile Peppers & Tomatoes
We are so excited to be offering our first-ever Seed Catalog in 2019! This is the BEST Seed Catalog for Chile Pepper Seeds and Tomato Seeds. We have a huge variety of Hatch Chile seeds, New Mexican Chile seeds, Hot Pepper Seeds, the Hottest Pepper Seeds, and Sweet Pepper Seeds. And don't miss our Heirloom Tomato Seeds as well as our Hybrid Tomato Seeds). Check out the catalog below, or download our Seed Catalog PDF, or order a Seed Catalog to be mailed to you in our online store.
Green Chile Recipe with Collard Greens
It's a great time of year to make some Green Chile stew! Do you ever add extras into your green chile stews like kale, collards, spinach, zucchini, squash, tomatillos, tomatoes, etc? We love to sneak in lots of extra flavor, vitamins and fiber with the deliciousness of homegrown green chile. Garden Green Chile Stew Recipe for Crockpot Here's a rough recipe (add whatever you want!): Ingredients: Any variety of Roasted green chiles, peeled and chopped Onions (chopped green onions...
Are Shishito Peppers hot?
Are Shishito Peppers hot?For the most part, Shishito Peppers are quite mild. But occasionally, they'll be a spicier Shishito, whether green or red. They say that one out of every 10-20 shishito peppers will get a little hotter than usual. These "spicy Shishitos" don't reach even a mild jalapeño in heat, but enough to spice up your tastebuds! Shishitos pepper seeds are surprisingly easy to grow – they are very prolific, and can be grown in containers or gardens alike. The 24...
September Vegetables
In the West, September means that tomatoes are FINALLY ripening, including all the fat juicy heirlooms you've been waiting all summer for. It also is a great season for harvesting chiles, which are usually loaded with chile peppers in September. And of course, you probably have lots of other vegetables in abundance such as zucchini, tomatillos squash, cucumbers, eggplants, kale, collard greens, herbs and more. What should you do with your harvest? Make fresh meals every night! Here are a...
Pumpkin Spice ain't got nothing on Green Chile
Pumpkin Spice ain't got nothing on Green ChileTRUTH! :) The smell and flavor of roasted green chile is amazing! We'd take green chile over pumpkin spice any day. You?! Grow your own Green Chile Seeds »View more of our Chile Memes » Happy growing!
Chocolate, White, Yellow and Red Hot Sauce Recipe
Hot Sauce Recipe: Cut peppers in half (use about 30 super hot peppers)1 1/2 Cups White vinegar1/2 tsp. Salt1 tsp. Minced Garlic Combine all ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil for 10 minutes. Transfer ingredients to a blender and blend. Will make roughly two 8oz jars. Enjoy! Store in the fridge. Try this with Chocolate Habaneros, White Habaneros, any of of our Yellow Super Hots, or any other hot peppers like Jalapenos, Ghost Chiles, etc.
Pepper Plant Pests
Pepper plants are not as prone to pests as other vegetables, but they do occasionally have problems with insect damage. We don't usually worry about a few holes in the leaves, but sometimes pests are more troublesome so we have our tips on pest prevention below. We never advise using insecticides or pesticides in your garden (remember, bugs are bird snacks!) instead, read our natural pest prevention and control tips below to keep your pepper garden healthy and happy: Top Pepper Plant Pest...
Chilli Seeds for Sale
Sandia Seed offers a huge selection of chilli seeds for sale. We sell chilli seeds to gardeners and growers around the world. While we specialize in Hatch Chile seeds from New Mexico, we also carry chilli seeds from Trinidad, Mexico, Spain, India, Africa, you name it! If you like to grow chilli seeds in your garden, make sure to check out our huge range of chilli seeds including our amazing rare pepper seeds from around the world, or shop for our chilli seeds for sale by different seed collec...
Best Vegetables to Grow in Colorado
We think that some of the best vegetables to grow in Colorado are Chile peppers and Tomatoes. We of course love growing all other vegetables as well including zucchini, squash, pumpkins, herbs, eggplant, and cucumbers of course, for making spicy pickles with the hot peppers! But tomatoes and peppers are hard to top. Any Colorado vegetable garden is likely to include several varieties of peppers and tomatoes, they bring such a wide variety of flavors and colors to the garden.Just think about...
Hottest New Mexico Chile Seeds
The hottest green chile seeds available are sold here at Sandia Seed Company. They are ranked by taste tests of the foods we prepare every year with them, and not their official Scoville heat units. #1 Hottest New Mexico Green Chile is the Rattlesnake Chile.The super hot Rattlesnake Green Chile is reported to reach up to 18,000 Scoville Heat Rating! However, often it is much lower near the 10,000 SHU rating, so while it can be our hottest, it's not always as hot as 18,000 SHU. To get it...
New Hatch Chile Seeds
Have you grown our new varieties of Hatch Chile seeds? Our latest favorite for those who like it super hot, is our soon-to-be-famous Rattlesnake Hatch Green Chile Seeds. These wicked little beasts are 4-8" long with thick HOT flesh that is SO delicious roasted. If Hatch Green Lumbre X-Hot is too hot for you, then try this perfect pepper. Its Scoville is reported to reach up to 18,000 SHU, but more often it is much lower near the 10,000 SHU rating. The Hatch Green Rattlesnake has a...
Discount Seeds
Sandia Seed offers lots of Discount Seeds so you can grow more peppers in your garden! Check out our 50% OFF SEEDS:A rotating selection of our seeds that change regularly so check back often for great deals on lots of our varieties. Shown above are our December 2022 deals! Check out our Discount Seeds including our Food Garden Seeds Gift Set, plus 3-Packs with three popular pepper seeds – with a thrifty 15% seed discount. No promo codes or coupon codes needed! We put together t...
Seed Catalog for the Independent Garden Center Industry Show
We're super excited to be at the IGC Show (Independent Garden Center Industry Show) this week! What a great group of people in the gardening world. This garden center show is from August 13 - 15, 2019 in Lakeside / McCormick, Chicago. We went last year and met lots of garden centers and nurseries all over the country. Some of them really have some amazing booths! Check out our FIRST EVER SEED CATALOG we just had printed for the show! Signup to find out how you can get a copy here »We ...
Chili Seeds
Sandia Seed has the best chili seeds from around the world! We specialize in New Mexico Hatch Chile seed varieties including Green Chile seeds and Red Chile seeds. If you haven't had New Mexican green chile, you're missing out! While technically you have to grow these green chiles in the Hatch region of New Mexico to call them "Hatch chiles," we still think they taste amazing wherever they are grown, from California to Florida to Japan and beyond! Check out these farmers growi...
Hatch Chile Seeds - Grow your own!
Grow your own Hatch Chiles from seed!Hatch Chiles are known worldwide for their incredible flavor. They are called Hatch because they are grown in the Hatch Valley area in southwestern New Mexico. All our Hatch chile seeds are grown in this area, and all our New Mexican pod-type chile seeds are grown in the state of New Mexico. If you have ever lived in New Mexico or tasted Hatch green chile then you know you can’t live without it! Well maybe you’ll live, but wouldn’t it be great to have them...
Growing Chile Seeds in Japan
We were excited to get these photos from one of our seed customers, Ryoichi A., in a small village of rural Osaka, Japan. They have been growing our NuMex Heritage Big Jims and other chiles in their beautiful fields. They recently ordered our Aji Limo Lemon Drop Pepper seeds, Serrano Seeds, Poblano Seeds, Red Cherry Hot Seeds, Carolina Reaper Seeds (the hottest pepper in the world!), Tabasco Seeds, NuMex Trick or Treat Habanero seeds (no heat), White Bhut Jolokia seeds, Peach Bhut Jolokia se...
