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  1. Murphy's Law of Peeling Chile MURPHY'S LAW OF PEELING HATCH CHILE: As soon as your hands are covered in chile juice, your nose will begin to itch, you will want to rub your eyes, and you will have to pee. True. So true. Grow your own Hatch Chile seeds for the freshest green chile you can get!Just be careful when you peel them! :)
  2. Pumpkin Spice ain't got nothing on Green Chile! Pumpkin Spice ain't got nothing on Green Chile! The smell of roasting chile in the air can't be beat this time of year! And, green chile goes great on EVERYTHING!! Unlike Pumpkin Spice, which, we're not sure goes that great with most things... but they do seem to flavor everything with it this time of year! We'd rather they use HATCH CHILE! ;) Grow your own Hatch Chile seeds »
  3. When to Pick Peppers When are chile peppers ready to harvest?If you're not sure when to pick peppers, here is our advice: Harvest time depends on the pepper variety. With any variety, you can wait until many peppers fully ripen, or you can also pick many peppers (such as Jalapenos) when they are green once they reach full size. Hatch chiles usually take about 75-85 days after transplanting before ready for harvest, so be patient as they ripen. Immature Hatch chiles will taste "green" and will be l...
  4. How to Dry Peppers without a Dehydrator Here are a few tips on How to Dry Peppers without a Dehydrator: 1. Make Chile Ristras!You can also make Ristras from your peppers, which are beautiful and very effective at drying out large amounts of peppers. They also are the perfect kitchen decoration & accessory as they keep your peppers ready to use anytime in any recipe. You can make Ristras from any peppers, not just the Hatch chile varieties. This is a great way to store your peppers for the winter.Learn how to make a Chile Rist...
  5. Carolina Reaper Powder Recipe If you grow Carolina Reapers, you probably aren't going to eat them whole. They're way too hot! While Carolina Reapers can't kill you, using too much can definitely make your head feel like it's burning off! So, since a little bit goes a long way, we think the best way to preserve our Carolina Reaper chile pepper harvest for year-round use is by drying out your chiles and making Carolina Reaper Powder! Here is our Carolina Reaper Powder Recipe – it's easy to make powder an...
  6. NEW Hot Pepper Seeds for 2019! Sandia Seed presents the Newest Peppers for 2019...Updated April 2, 2019Click on any of the pepper packets below to read more about these special hot pepper seeds, and to buy seeds: Rattlesnake Hatch Chile SeedsRattlesnake Green Chile is the new and very spicy variety joining the Hatch Green Chile compadres this growing season. The Rattlesnake chile was developed to be very hot and very delicious. Pods can be 4" - 8" long with thick flesh and plants grow to 30" tall. Ora...
  7. Easy Fermented Hot Sauce Recipe Fermented hot sauce has a complex flavor, and is also probiotic... which is all the rage right now. And, it's so easy to make, you'll wonder why you didn't try it sooner. Find more Fermented Hot Sauce Recipes here » Happy hot saucin'!Sandia Seed's Easy Fermented Hot Sauce Recipe:Time: 15 minutes of prep, plus 3 days to ferment. 1 cup of hot peppers, chopped(use any hot peppers you want, such as the hottest Carolina Reaper, or Goat Horn, Tabasco, Cayenne, Trinidad S...
  8. No Salt Hot Sauce Recipe So if you're like us, you like to put Hot Sauce on EVERYTHING. If you're worried about your salt intake, and you like vinegar, this No-Salt Hot Pepper Vinegar Sauce is great on food and doesn't add any salt to your diet! It's a great way to spice things up with great flavor without sodium. Sandia Seed's No-Salt Hot Sauce Recipe: 1 glass bottle with cap or cork 1 cup of hot peppers (roughly, use any type of hot pepper, such as Goat Horns, or Cayenne Peppers . You ...
  9. Fresh Tomatillo Salsa Recipe (Salsa Verde) Fresh Tomatillo Salsa (Salsa Verde) with Chimayo Peppers Mix up a batch of this Tomatillo salsa (also known as Salsa Verde) and it's sure to be a hit! With fresh Tomatillos, a couple fresh Chimayo chiles or Jalapeños or any hot pepper, plus 2-4 fresh garlic cloves, chopped onion, salt, pepper, fresh cilantro and cumin, this is a fresh salsa that you'll love. Tomatillos* (as many ripe ones as you can pick – a large bowl's worth or more) 1/2 Sweet White or Purple Onion, diced 2-...
  10. Can you Grow Green Chile in Wyoming? Yes, you can grow Green Chile in Wyoming. In fact, we have a customer in northern Wyoming who grows our Heritage Big Jim seeds in Sheridan, Wyoming with great success. Check out her photos she sent us, and her beautiful expansive chile garden. We're impressed! “I hope that you get these photos. I started your Heritage Big Jim seed in a sunshed in mid March, planted around 600 to the garden! As you see, we made quite a haul! I do have a small chile roaster and many chile loving friends...
  11. Homegrown Chile-Garlic Sauce Recipe Homegrown Chile-Garlic Sauce Recipe: 1 Cup Hot Peppers (choose any red peppers* you want, mix and match!)6-8 cloves garlic, chopped2 Tbsp sesame oil2 tablespoon sugar or maple syrup4 tablespoons white vinegarSalt and pepper as desired Add everything to a food processor to process until smooth. Put pepper mix into a small non-reactive pot and heat to simmer for about 10 minutes. Let it cool, then put into a small jar and refrigerate for at least a couple hours before using to let the flavors ...
  12. Top 15 questions about Bell Peppers We receive many questions about peppers and have written the answers to the most common questions about Bell Peppers here. Answers will include Bell Pepper growth, color, storage and health benefits. View all of our bell pepper seeds » 1. What is the best Bell Pepper variety for my area? Peppers are a warm season crop and need temperatures above 75 degrees throughout their growing season. Higher latitudes and altitudes can extend the start of growing season, wet areas can use raised beds, and...
  13. Hot Pepper Salsa Tasting Party Idea Salsa Tasting Party If you like salsa like we do, here's an idea: Try our Carolina Reaper Salsa Recipe and other Salsa Recipes, and make three salsas using different hot peppers for each salsa, and then have a salsa tasting party! Make 3 salsas, or more, depending on how many different types of peppers you have to taste. Dried peppers also work great for making salsas, so you can have salsa parties in the off-season months, too! :) Discover our Favorite Salsa Recipes » You could hav...
  14. Hand Pollinate Peppers Do you need to hand pollinate peppers?If growing outdoors in a pollinator-friendly garden, you shouldn't have any problems with your pepper flowers' pollination. Usually the bees and the breeze pollinate your peppers with great success. If you are finding that your pepper plants keep dropping blossoms without any peppers, below are some tips to keep the peppers coming all summer long: Create a Pollinator Garden:If you want a great harvest of peppers, enlist your pollinator friends!...
  15. Can you grow peppers in London? Some of our customers ask us, can you grow peppers in London? Sure! Of course you can grow peppers in London and the UK. We have customers growing our chile seeds around the world with great success, from everywhere from Florida to the UK. The trick is to start chile pepper seeds with lots of heat indoors first to get them to germinate quickly, and grow into strong seedlings before planting outside after it warms up to 60-70˚ consistently. Then, make sure to harden them off before planting o...
  16. Can you eat NuMex Twilight Peppers? Check out the NuMex Twilight Pepper – this beautiful, eye-catching pepper plant produces a rainbow array of bright purple fruits that ripen to yellow, orange, then red.Since they are so prolific... we often have customers ask: Can you eat NuMex Twilight Peppers? Yes! While these peppers are very HOT and the pungency level of this ornamental has not been evaluated, you can still eat them as you would with any hot pepper. NuMex Twilight Recipes:We chop our NuMex Twilight peppers into sa...
  17. Big Jim Seeds - Grown around the world! Our NuMex Heritage Big Jim green chile seeds are one of our top-selling seeds. The plants yield large meaty pods can reach up to 12” in length, growing on productive and large 36” plants. You can easily grow Big Jim green chiles, as well as any of our Hatch chile seed varieties all over the world!One of our customers recently wrote this review below on the infamous Big Jim seeds that he orders from us each year and grows them in Ontario, Canada. A lot of customers ask us if they can grow gre...
  18. Mulching Peppers Did you know that mulching your vegetables is one of the best things you can do for plant health and production? That's right, mulch helps keep the soil moisture in and more consistent, and it also helps cut down on disease (especially on Heirloom tomatoes) as it prevents soil from splashing up on the leaves. If you have a lawn, one of your best free sources of mulch is grass clippings! You can spread them out in your garden beds (make sure not to pile the mulch too close to the stems of...
  19. Join the Hatch Chile Growers Group on Facebook Join our Hatch Chile Growers Group on Facebook and help us share Hatch chile growing tips, stories, photos, and successes with growing Hatch chiles around the world. We will share our favorite tips throughout the chile growing season to help you know how to manage pepper problems, pests or questions. We know technically a "Hatch chile" has to be grown in Hatch to be called a Hatch, but we find that people grow our Hatch chile seeds all over the world – from Florida to California to...
  20. How to Grow Heirloom Tomato Seeds Want to learn How to Grow Heirloom Tomato Seeds? Here are our tips: Germination Tip: Start seeds indoors 6 -8 weeks before transplant date. Sow 1/8” deep and keep soil moist and warm at 70-80˚F. Germination takes 5-10 days. Move to bright light once the first seedling emerges. Transplant to larger containers when the first two true leaves appear. Fertilize once or twice with dilute organic solution. Harden off plants outside before transplanting to garden.