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  1. Molcajete Mexicano: Great for Hot Pepper Flakes & Salsa Recipes! A molcajete is basically a large volcanic stone mortar & pestle. Molcajetes are often used to prepare Mexican food such as salsa and guacamole. Using a Molcajete is also perfect for grinding up your dried peppers from the garden to make pepper flakes. It's super easy to make hot pepper flakes with your Mexican Molcajete with all varieties of chile peppers – you can make pepper flakes out of super hot peppers like Bhut Jolokia Ghost Peppers, Dorset Naga Peppers, Carolina Reaper Pe...
  2. Harissa Recipe - with Homegrown Hatch Chiles Harissa is a spice mix used in Tunisian cuisine, and can be used on everything from vegetables to soups to rice or couscous. This Harissa recipe uses the famous New Mexican Red Hatch Chiles, which are roasted and peeled to make this delicious spice. 3 fresh* or frozen Hatch Red Chiles (any variety of red chile will do!) 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 tsp coriander seeds 3 tbsp olive oil 1 red onion, chopped 2 tsp tomato paste 6 cloves garlic, chopped 6 hot red chiles, (use super hot peppers like Caro...
  3. National Hot Sauce Day Happy National Hot Sauce Day! Annually on: January 22 Grow your own hot sauce from seeds! Sandia Seed offers a ton of different hot pepper seeds that make for amazing hot sauce. Grow our super hot pepper seeds for wicked hot sauces, or grow our hot pepper seeds for sauces with a milder heat. You can also grow Hatch chile seeds or even sweet pepper seeds and add them into your hot sauce recipes to give the sauce more sweetness, flavor and depth. National Hot Sauce Day is observed annually on...
  4. Shishito Recipe If you grow our Shishito seeds, then you know how delicious these amazing Japanese sweet peppers taste! Here's a super simple recipe for your Shishito garden harvest: Ingredients: Shishito Chiles 1-2 Tablespoons of Sesame Oil or Olive Oil Chopped Garlic Cloves (1-3 cloves) Sesame Seeds (1 Teaspoon) Sea Salt (to taste) Heat up a skillet, add olive oil, then throw in the Shishitos, garlic, sesame seeds and sprinkle with sea salt. Fry until slightly charred, then serve! Delicious! Shishit...
  5. Heirloom Tomato & Pepper Seeds Check out all of our delicious Heirloom Tomato and Pepper Seeds you can grow easily in your garden!
  6. Cheap Veg Seeds Looking for cheap veg seeds for your vegetable garden or farm? Sandia Seed specializes in New Mexican Chile seeds, including several Hatch Chile seeds varieties, as well as super hot pepper seeds like the Carolina Reaper, and sweet pepper seeds like Pimento Pepper seeds If you're looking for getting the most seeds for your money, then the cheapest seeds are the seeds sold in 30-seed packs or check out our Bulk Seeds. The number of seeds per packet depends on the variety, some of our sp...
  7. New Year’s Resolutions for Gardeners Here are some of our favorite Gardener Resolutions to aspire to this coming year! Gardener Resolutions: Build a Compost Bin (or a compost pile!) – Compost is natures FREE fertilizer and works better than anything you can buy. Read more about Peppers & Compost » Plant More Perennials– to feed the birds and the bees and beautify your landscape. What's great about perennials is that they come back bigger and better every year and they also provide some of the earliest blooms for bea...
  8. Stocking Stuffers for Gardeners Looking for some ideas for Stocking Stuffers for Gardeners? Well, you may have already guessed, but seeds are always the best gifts for gardeners, even those who have everything. Because you can never have too many seeds! Just ask any gardener. While we can't guarantee Christmas delivery for 2019 anymore, you can buy our Gift Cards which are instantly emailed so you can print and stuff into a stocking or wrap up in a box to give to your favorite gardener. Sandia Seed specializes in New ...
  9. Last Minute Gardener Gifts Gift Cards for seeds make great last minute gifts for gardeners!Sandia Seed will email your purchased gift cards immediately after you buy them so you can email to the recipient or print and wrap as a present or use as a stocking stuffer! The gift card can be used immediately online to purchase any of our seeds. Ask anyone who grows vegetables from seed, and they'll tell you: you can never have too many seeds! So gift cards for seeds are always welcome as we all dream of growing new var...
  10. Dragon's Breath Pepper Our seed customers are always asking if we have Dragon's Breath Pepper for Sale...and now we do!! Subscribe to our mailing list and you'll be the first to know when we offer new seeds: You asked for the Dragon's Breath Pepper and we now have seeds for these beasts! We have limited availability of Dragon's Breath Pepper Seeds so make sure to order them now while they last.This mythological demon pepper is rumored to be hotter than the hottest pepper in the world...
  11. Gifts for Gardeners who have Everything Trying to think up some great gifts for gardeners who have everything? Well, we think there is one universal gardener rule: You can never have too many seeds! :) New for 2020/2021 is our Organic Food Garden Seed Gift Collection! This is the perfect gift that is sure to please any gardener in your life! With 20 types of veggies to grow (over 2,000 total seeds) this collection also comes with growing tips and a garden tote that is perfect for collecting veggies in the garden or sharing the ...
  12. Instagram T-Shirt Winners Happy New Year, Gardeners! My name is Patsy, and I'm the owner of Sandia Seed. In November 2018, I bet our team that we could get 2,000 Instagram followers by 2019 New Year's Day. We got quite close, we're now at 1,650 followers! And it's still growing. Thank you to everyone who followed us! While this $5 offer is no longer available, please stay tuned on Instagram and Facebook or Pinterest for future coupon offers! Of course, you can still follow us on Instagram–thanks for ...
  13. Seed Promo Code Seed Promo Codes: Save Money on SandiaSeed.com with Promo Codes and Coupons! Read how below: Looking for Seed Promo Codes? We will be posting Promo Codes here on this page for discounts on our seeds. Get $5 off at SandiaSeed.com, just follow us on Instagram. All new followers in 2018 will receive a $5 Off Promo Code for any seeds in our store! ($5 Off Seed Promo Code good on orders over $10, one per customer). instagram.com/sandiaseed Then, stay tuned here, or on our Facebook or Instagr...
  14. Sphagnum Moss vs Peat Moss There is a lot of confusion about the labeling of sphagnum moss and peat moss. The important difference between these two mosses has never been clearly explained to most gardeners. So, this article will try to clear up the confusion and describe how they are both similar, yet two very different soil amendments. Sphagnum moss is pH neutral. Yes, you read that right. Generally, the pH of sphagnum moss is pH neutral. It is soft, pliable, and very water-retentive. It is used to line baskets, a...
  15. Discounted Pepper Seed 3-Packs We offer Discounted Pepper Seed 3-Packs with three popular pepper seeds in each at a 15% discount. No promo code needed! We put together our customer favorites for the most prolific and tasty or spicy peppers that people grow every year. This is a great way to save some money with 15% off discounts on the 3-packs and harvest some of the best chiles that you can easily grow in your own garden. Wondering how to grow these chile peppers in your garden? We have included lots of secrets to succes...
  16. Orange Pepper Seeds - An Orange Habanero with no Heat! Grow Orange pepper seeds for some delightful color in your recipes! We have lots of different orange peppers to choose from – ranging from hot to sweet. Looking for a sweet orange pepper? Our Habanada is a sweet habanero pepper with crisp, thin skin and great exotic, floral flavor – all the great parts of a hot Habanero but without even a hint of heat.The Habanada has all the great flavor and the aroma of a hot Orange Habanero, but without any capsaicin to burn your tongue. These are great...
  17. How to Grow Chilli Plants Faster If you're wondering how to grow chilli plants faster, there are a lot of ways to do this. Make sure to start your seeds early, keep them warm, and use season extenders or indoor lights to help them grow faster until the warm weather comes to stay. Make sure to grow them in full sun, too, as peppers need lots of sun to grow big and strong. Read more of our top tips for How to Grow Chilli Plants Faster below... Here are our top tips to grow chilli plants faster: 1. Grow Short Season Peppers...
  18. Green Chile Seeds Discounts Looking for Seed Discounts or Promo Code for seeds? We are offering 15% off our most popular seeds in our new Discounted Pepper Seed 3-Packs. If you're looking for Green Chile Seeds, Sandia Seed is your source! We offer a large variety of Hatch and Green Chile seeds that have been grown in the New Mexico Hatch region for centuries. Because of its great flavor, New Mexican green chiles have become more and more popular around the world. There's even a green chile shortage at the end of...
  19. Red Pepper Seeds Sandia Seed specializes in Red Pepper Seeds – ranging from Super Hot Peppers like the hottest pepper in the world, the Carolina Reaper... to deliciously Sweet Peppers such as Pimento Seeds, or the Italian treasure: the Jimmy Nardello, as well as the open-pollinated Stocky Red Rooster which is a super flavorful frying pepper. Red Pepper Seeds are easy to grow! Yes, pepper seeds are actually quite easy to grow into productive beautiful plants in your garden. Peppers can be grown in large...
  20. Fatalii Salsa Recipe Fatalii Pepper Salsa Recipe This is a great fruity and spicy salsa with tomatoes, pineapple and the tropical flavored Fatalii Peppers that add a great citrus heat. Fatalii peppers are also famous for making a fruity flavored hot sauce, check out our Easy Fermented Hot Sauce recipe » Fatalii peppers are hard to find at grocery stores, so if you can grow your own, you will have so many that you can share them with friends and dry or freeze some for year-round and winter use. This Fatali...