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  1. Quick Marinara Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes If you're looking for a Quick Marinara Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes, check out this simple Marinara Sauce Recipe below. We love growing heirloom tomatoes from seed, and then come harvest time, we make batches of this amazing marinara sauce to freeze for winter use. It's great with fresh herbs and garlic from the garden! Ingredients: Homegrown tomatoes (any variety, any amount) Basil Leaves, chopped fresh or dried (1 tsp dried) Rosemary Sprig Oregano, fresh or dried (1 tsp dried) Thy...
  2. Spicy Salt Recipe Spicy Salt Recipe: Ingredients: Sea Salt or any salt will do! Dried Peppers (any hot peppers or super hot peppers are great in this recipe, you can also make Red Hatch Chile Salt with dried red Hatch chiles!) Herbs (optional, you can add dried oregano, rosemary, parsley, green onions, thyme, basil, dill, chives, curry, turmeric... the options are endless!) Directions: Put salt and dried peppers into a spice grinder, coffee grinder or food processor and pulse until well mixed. Or if you ...
  3. Discount Seeds for Black Friday + Cyber Monday Sandia Seed Black Friday, Small Business Saturday + Cyber Monday Seed Sale!Get discount seeds for all of our Hatch Green and Hatch Red Seed packets – with our discount code you can get 40% off and any quantity for 5 days! Start Shopping Now »Seed Sale starts Nov 28-Dec 2, 2019Signup for our newsletter and we'll email the discount code for this amazing deal the week before Thanksgiving! Subscribe Start shopping all of our Hatch Chile Seeds: View Seeds on Sale »
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  5. Seed Sale! SEED SALE! While this sale has ended, you can subscribe to our newsletter to get our future sales and discount codes. In 2019, Sandia Seed had a huge Black Friday + Cyber Monday sale on seeds. All of our Hatch Green and Hatch Red Seed packets were 40% off and any quantity for 5 days!
  6. Green Tomato Recipes Looking for the best Green Tomato Recipes? Here are some of our favorites below, we like spicy, if you can tell. It seems that every year we have more green tomatoes than red at the end of the season. The frost looms and we frantically pick all the unripe green heirloom tomatoes hoping they'll quickly ripen to red. And, some do, but many of the less ripe ones stay green for a long time and never quite ripe. And, if they do change color, they don't taste anywhere near as good as one th...
  7. Fall Vegetable Garden Tips 2019 Fall Vegetable Garden Tips Now that fall is here for many of us, and you've harvested the last of your chiles, tomatoes, and other summer veggies, it's time to put your gardens to bed for the winter. Here are a couple of tips to build your garden soil for next season: 1. Mulch your garden beds with compost, grass clippings or leaves to help conserve moisture over the winter, as well as feed/build the soil. Did you know you can add your roasted green chile skins and seeds to y...
  8. 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...
  9. Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce Recipe Here is the BEST smoky Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce recipe you'll ever make! We like to add lots of ingredients in this recipe to create a deep, rich, ghostly hot sauce that is so amazing you'll want to make lots of batches to share with friends! INGREDIENTS3 cups ketchup1.5 cups bourbon (optional)9 tablespoons brown sugar9 tablespoons molasses (makes it thick!)9 tablespoons apple cider vinegar (or any vinegar)6 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce3 tablespoons soy sauce3 tablespoons mustard3 ...
  10. Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce Recipe Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce Recipe Carolina Reaper peppers are SUPER HOT! In fact, the Reaper was certified as the world's hottest by the Guinness World Records on August 11, 2017, and no pepper has beat it yet. While we wouldn't recommend eating a Carolina Reaper whole, we do think they are super tasty in hot sauce! The other ingredients in this sauce can cut down the heat and bring out the delicious fruity flavor of the Carolina Reaper. Here's our simple recipe: Carolin...
  11. Green Chile Stew Recipe Nothing beats homegrown, homemade green chile stew (also referred to as "Green Chili" in the fall and winter months! Now that you've grown and roasted your green chiles, why not make it into a hearty stew that you can share with family and friends? Make a double batch for your next party or dinner!GREEN CHILE STEW RECIPE: Ingredients: 1½ tbsp olive oil 1 cup roasted homegrown green chiles, diced 2 lbs of pork shoulder, cubed (you can also use chicken or mushrooms, omit meat to ...
  12. Fermented Hot Sauce Recipe - with Carolina Reapers Here's a super simple recipe for hot sauce: Hot Sauce Recipe - with Carolina Reapers (no Fermentation): Add several garlic cloves, some onion, some tomatoes, and 1-3 Carolina Reapers and any other hot peppers you have on hand into a blender. Add salt to taste. You can also fire roast the ingredients before placing them in the blender for a smokier flavor. Store in disinfected jars or bottles in the fridge for up to a year. Ferment your hot sauce for more flavor! You can use a Fermentatio...
  13. What is the Hottest New Mexican Green Chile? What is the Hottest New Mexican Green Chile? To help you guess, view all of our New Mexican Green Chile seeds » Then, message the answer to us on Instagram » Post answer on our Facebook Page » We'll reply with a coupon code you can use on sandiaseed.com! This offer has ended, subscribe for more offers!
  14. 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 »
  15. 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...
  16. Jalapeño Seeds Sandia Seed has LOTS of different kinds of Jalapeno Seeds!Jalapeños are one of our favorite peppers to grow in the garden for lots of reasons: They're super tasty! Jalapeños are great for salsas Jalapeños make delicious poppers when stuffed with cheese and grilled Jalapeños are one of the first hot peppers to harvest each season, with some of our Jalapeño varieties ready from seed to harvest in just 65 days Jalapeños can be picked anytime, whether they are green or when they'...
  17. Best Mulch for Tomatoes and Peppers There are lots of options for the Best Mulch for Tomatoes and Peppers, you can use fine wood mulch, compost, grass clippings, paper mulch, fabric, straw, leaves or newspaper. We think the best mulches are grass clippings or good compost as they help feed the soil. Mulching can prevent a lot of problems in the garden. IMPORTANT NOTE: WHATEVER MULCH YOU USE, MAKE SURE NOT TO PILE MULCH UP AGAINST THE STEMS OF YOUR VEGGIES, OR YOU'LL SMOTHER AND ROT THEIR BASE! Above is a pepper growing in a...
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. Mild Green Chile Seeds We sell eight different mild green chile varieties to grow in your garden. The first 3 choices Anaheim, Hatch Green Mild NM 6-4, and NuMex Heritage 6-4 are truly the mildest of all green chiles. We suggest trying some of the other great varieties that are listed here. They are delicious and can be mild or move slightly up to the medium heat level. These chiles are great for "taming" down the spiciness of hotter chiles while adding tons of flavor. All our green chile varieties are Op...