Heirloom Pepper Seeds: The Fish PepperFascinating heirloom Fish Pepper plants have variegated foliage and bear lots of delicious hot pods with stripes. The peppers start out green with white stripes and eventually turn to orange with brown stripes and then to red. They are hot and tasty with up to 30,000 Scovilles and are great for salsas, curries, chili and sauces. Easy to grow, great for containers, this is a pepper every chilehead will love to have in their garden! Fish Pepper plants often start out green – the mottled f...
Heirloom Jalapeño SeedsSandia Seed has several varieties of Heirloom Jalapeño Seeds for your garden. Easy to grow, Jalapeño seeds come in a wide variety of colors, heat-levels, and sizes. One of our favorite Heirloom Jalapeños is the Early Jalapeno – These are one of the earliest peppers at just 65 days from seed to the first harvest. Everybody loves Jalapeños because they can be prepared in so many different ways. Jalapeño poppers, jalapeño jelly, and pickled jalapeños are just a few examples. Jalapeños have ...
Short Season Heirloom TomatoesLooking to grow Short Season Heirloom Tomatoes this season? If you are looking to grow early tomato varieties, you've come to the right place. If you are in a short season climate, or, if you just want to enjoy juicy homegrown heirloom tomatoes from your garden, any of these varieties would be a great pick! Best Short Season Tomatoes: Heirloom Pineapple Tomato These plants will fruit fairly early, and also ripen quickly. In mid-summer, they seemed to stop blooming, then they put on ano...
Are Hatch chiles heirlooms?Yes and No. The New Mexico pod-type chiles have an interesting history. History - The first NM chile was created in 1921 by Fabian Garcia. His 'New Mexico No. 9' chile became the foundation for the modern chile pepper industry in the American West. Before 1921 growers had no way to predict or control the size or heat of their chile pods. García saw an opportunity to develop a chile that would be easier to peel after roasting and to preserve by canning. He predicted, too, that a milder...
Hybrid vs. Open-Pollinated and Heirloom SeedsThis is the time of year that many gardeners start planning their spring gardens. It can be helpful to know the difference between hybrid, and open-pollinated (OP) seeds. The OP seeds are the best choice if seeds from the fruits will be saved and replanted the following year. The produce from OP seeds often tastes better, but the plants may not have the disease resistance that hybrids do. All heirlooms are OP, so the two words are often used synonymously. The main difference is that heirloom ...
Heirloom Tomato & Pepper SeedsCheck out all of our delicious Heirloom Tomato and Pepper Seeds you can grow easily in your garden!
How to Grow Heirloom Tomato SeedsWant 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.
From Seed to Table: Why Growing Your Own Food Matters More Than EverGrowing Your Own Food Matters More Than Ever!There are a lot of benefits to growing your own vegetables and fruit at home. Here are just a few reasons why growing your own food: Water Conservation: Vegetable (and fruit) gardens actually use less water than traditional bluegrass lawns, often saving 50–75% of water use — especially if using drip irrigation and mulch. If you live in a dry and drought-prone region, removing grass and adding vegetable gardens can help cut down on water use and exp...
20% OFF OUR FASTEST GROWING TOMATO SEEDS20% OFF OUR FASTEST GROWING TOMATO SEEDS SORRY, THIS SALE HAS ENDED! Signup for our newsletter to get our future deals!Use discount code: FASTERTOMATOES to save big on all of our Short Season Tomato Seeds CollectionNow through Sunday, May 17, 2026. Some of our favorite short season tomatoes include Sun Gold, a very sweet cherry tomato; Super Sweet 100, another productive and flavorful cherry type; Black Prince, which is valued for its rich, heirloom taste; New Yorker, a reliable early slic...
Why are my Pequin pepper plants not producing?Not having luck with Pequins? We had a customer write that they were having no luck with Pequin seeds, that, after two months, their Pequin plants they grew from seed didn't produce any peppers while his other pepper varieties did well. He said that the Pequin plants he bought from the garden nursery did better. Well, don't despair if you have a Pequin plant that hasn't produced after 2 months after starting them from seed – they need a long growing season to produce. Pequins, a...
Best Seed CatalogDiscover the Best Seed Catalog! Grow Peppers of the World with Sandia Seed! Our Sandia Seed catalog is widely considered one of the best seed catalogs for pepper lovers and Southwestern-style gardens, especially if the gardener enjoys chiles, hot peppers, and New Mexico–style vegetables. It stands out for its beautiful design, huge pepper selection, and practical growing info, making it both a useful tool and a fun gift. View our full online seed catalog to see every seed featured in our prin...
Caprese Salad RecipeA Caprese salad is one of the best things summer has to offer! It's a simple and delicious way to make use of all those tomatoes and basil that are abundant in the garden in mid-to-late summer. Just add fresh mozzarella, and a balsamic vinegar & maple syrup glaze and you're in for a treat! This is a great recipe to bring to summer parties and picnics, as it is so colorful & fresh and travels well. Make a lot, as it won't last long! Ingredients: Heirloom Tomatoes, sliced ...
What are the best tasting sweet peppers?Customers ask often, what are the best tasting sweet peppers? We recommend to grow peppers beyond the classic bell peppers, which are also great when homegrown and come in a variety of sizes including the extra-early Chocolate Bell Pepper, but there are a ton of specialty sweet peppers from around the world that will wow your tastebuds and be very useful in the kitchen for all sorts of recipes. Whether you want sweet peppers to add to stir fries, burritos, sauces, or to pickle, marinate, roas...
Best Tomatoes for SauceGrow the best Sauce Tomatoes! If you love growing tomatoes to make your own sauce, we have some of our top recommendations for great tomato varieties to grow that will be bountiful and have nice meaty flesh that make beautifully thick tomato and marinara sauces. Of course, don't stop at this list below, all tomatoes can make an amazing sauce!!We'll start out with the classic tomatoes that are known for using for tomato sauce, which include Romas and Marzanos: San Marzano Roma Tom...
Free Seeds with a Seed Catalog Order!Order our printed Seed Catalog and get some FREE SEEDS*! For a limited time, get a FREE PACKET OF SEEDS with every print seed catalog ordered ($3 includes domestic shipping). We will pick the variety, so it will be a surprise! This is your chance to grow something new, and share with gardening friends and family. What seed packet will you get with your catalog? *Free seeds will be added to your order automatically, varieties vary. With over 100+ peppers of the world, this is a fun seed ...
Interesting Sweet Pepper Varieties with Zero HeatIf you want to share your pepper harvest with friends and family (including kids) who don’t tolerate spiciness... but you still want some flavorful, unusual specialty peppers, check out this list of interesting sweet peppers. At Sandia Seed, we carry sweet peppers from around the world so you can taste the rainbow of pepper colors and flavors picked fresh from your garden. Cubanelles are loved by chefs and are sweet and crispy with thin skins - great for stir fries or salads. Fushimis are ...
Vegetables You Can Plant in SeptemberJust because it's September, gardening season isn't over yet! There are still plenty of veggies you can plant now. Here are some of our top recommendations: Here are some veggies you can still plant in September: Lettuce - Little Gem is a great variety to start in September! It also can tolerate light frosts. Spinach - Bloomsdale Spinach, a cold-hardy beloved heirloom variety known for its thick, crinkly dark green leaves and rich, nutty flavor. Bunching Onions - a hardy, fas...
2026 Seed Catalog - Peppers of the WorldWe are so excited for our new 2026 Seed Catalog, packed with peppers, tomatoes, veggies and lots of recipes, growing tips and pepper growing info. Check out what we have coming in our newest Seed Catalog! Our seed catalog has 36 pages of colorful photos and info that is a great coffee or dinner table companion, and can be used in the kitchen, too! Dream up next season's vegetable garden with over 100 peppers and tons of tomatoes and vegetables to grow to have a variety of delicious harve...
Benefits of GardeningGardening offers a wide range of benefits including: Nutritious Food & Improved Diet: Freshly harvested vegetables have more nutrients than those that have traveled miles and days/weeks to get to the store. Your tastebuds know it too: a homegrown heirloom tomato always tastes way more amazing and complex than any store-bought tomatoes, especially when fresh-picked and still warm from the sun. When you garden, you can grow specialty peppers that are packed with flavor that you'd neve...
Low Water VegetablesWondering what are the best low water vegetables to grow? Here are a few of our suggestions along with tips for conserving water in your garden. #1 Favorite Low Water Vegetables: Peppers* Peppers need less water than many other vegetables. As tropical plants, they thrive in warm, well-draining soil and don't mind it drying out slightly between watering. The famous New Mexico Chiles are grown annually in the dry regions of Hatch Valley and Chimayó regions of New Mexico, and the Pueblo Ch...
Heirloom Pepper Seeds: The Fish Pepper
Fascinating heirloom Fish Pepper plants have variegated foliage and bear lots of delicious hot pods with stripes. The peppers start out green with white stripes and eventually turn to orange with brown stripes and then to red. They are hot and tasty with up to 30,000 Scovilles and are great for salsas, curries, chili and sauces. Easy to grow, great for containers, this is a pepper every chilehead will love to have in their garden! Fish Pepper plants often start out green – the mottled f...
Heirloom Jalapeño Seeds
Sandia Seed has several varieties of Heirloom Jalapeño Seeds for your garden. Easy to grow, Jalapeño seeds come in a wide variety of colors, heat-levels, and sizes. One of our favorite Heirloom Jalapeños is the Early Jalapeno – These are one of the earliest peppers at just 65 days from seed to the first harvest. Everybody loves Jalapeños because they can be prepared in so many different ways. Jalapeño poppers, jalapeño jelly, and pickled jalapeños are just a few examples. Jalapeños have ...
Short Season Heirloom Tomatoes
Looking to grow Short Season Heirloom Tomatoes this season? If you are looking to grow early tomato varieties, you've come to the right place. If you are in a short season climate, or, if you just want to enjoy juicy homegrown heirloom tomatoes from your garden, any of these varieties would be a great pick! Best Short Season Tomatoes: Heirloom Pineapple Tomato These plants will fruit fairly early, and also ripen quickly. In mid-summer, they seemed to stop blooming, then they put on ano...
Heirloom Tomato & Pepper Seeds
Check out all of our delicious Heirloom Tomato and Pepper Seeds you can grow easily in your garden!
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.
From Seed to Table: Why Growing Your Own Food Matters More Than Ever
Growing Your Own Food Matters More Than Ever!There are a lot of benefits to growing your own vegetables and fruit at home. Here are just a few reasons why growing your own food: Water Conservation: Vegetable (and fruit) gardens actually use less water than traditional bluegrass lawns, often saving 50–75% of water use — especially if using drip irrigation and mulch. If you live in a dry and drought-prone region, removing grass and adding vegetable gardens can help cut down on water use and exp...
20% OFF OUR FASTEST GROWING TOMATO SEEDS
20% OFF OUR FASTEST GROWING TOMATO SEEDS SORRY, THIS SALE HAS ENDED! Signup for our newsletter to get our future deals!Use discount code: FASTERTOMATOES to save big on all of our Short Season Tomato Seeds CollectionNow through Sunday, May 17, 2026. Some of our favorite short season tomatoes include Sun Gold, a very sweet cherry tomato; Super Sweet 100, another productive and flavorful cherry type; Black Prince, which is valued for its rich, heirloom taste; New Yorker, a reliable early slic...
Why are my Pequin pepper plants not producing?
Not having luck with Pequins? We had a customer write that they were having no luck with Pequin seeds, that, after two months, their Pequin plants they grew from seed didn't produce any peppers while his other pepper varieties did well. He said that the Pequin plants he bought from the garden nursery did better. Well, don't despair if you have a Pequin plant that hasn't produced after 2 months after starting them from seed – they need a long growing season to produce. Pequins, a...
Best Seed Catalog
Discover the Best Seed Catalog! Grow Peppers of the World with Sandia Seed! Our Sandia Seed catalog is widely considered one of the best seed catalogs for pepper lovers and Southwestern-style gardens, especially if the gardener enjoys chiles, hot peppers, and New Mexico–style vegetables. It stands out for its beautiful design, huge pepper selection, and practical growing info, making it both a useful tool and a fun gift. View our full online seed catalog to see every seed featured in our prin...
Caprese Salad Recipe
A Caprese salad is one of the best things summer has to offer! It's a simple and delicious way to make use of all those tomatoes and basil that are abundant in the garden in mid-to-late summer. Just add fresh mozzarella, and a balsamic vinegar & maple syrup glaze and you're in for a treat! This is a great recipe to bring to summer parties and picnics, as it is so colorful & fresh and travels well. Make a lot, as it won't last long! Ingredients: Heirloom Tomatoes, sliced ...
What are the best tasting sweet peppers?
Customers ask often, what are the best tasting sweet peppers? We recommend to grow peppers beyond the classic bell peppers, which are also great when homegrown and come in a variety of sizes including the extra-early Chocolate Bell Pepper, but there are a ton of specialty sweet peppers from around the world that will wow your tastebuds and be very useful in the kitchen for all sorts of recipes. Whether you want sweet peppers to add to stir fries, burritos, sauces, or to pickle, marinate, roas...
Best Tomatoes for Sauce
Grow the best Sauce Tomatoes! If you love growing tomatoes to make your own sauce, we have some of our top recommendations for great tomato varieties to grow that will be bountiful and have nice meaty flesh that make beautifully thick tomato and marinara sauces. Of course, don't stop at this list below, all tomatoes can make an amazing sauce!!We'll start out with the classic tomatoes that are known for using for tomato sauce, which include Romas and Marzanos: San Marzano Roma Tom...
Free Seeds with a Seed Catalog Order!
Order our printed Seed Catalog and get some FREE SEEDS*! For a limited time, get a FREE PACKET OF SEEDS with every print seed catalog ordered ($3 includes domestic shipping). We will pick the variety, so it will be a surprise! This is your chance to grow something new, and share with gardening friends and family. What seed packet will you get with your catalog? *Free seeds will be added to your order automatically, varieties vary. With over 100+ peppers of the world, this is a fun seed ...
Interesting Sweet Pepper Varieties with Zero Heat
If you want to share your pepper harvest with friends and family (including kids) who don’t tolerate spiciness... but you still want some flavorful, unusual specialty peppers, check out this list of interesting sweet peppers. At Sandia Seed, we carry sweet peppers from around the world so you can taste the rainbow of pepper colors and flavors picked fresh from your garden. Cubanelles are loved by chefs and are sweet and crispy with thin skins - great for stir fries or salads. Fushimis are ...
Vegetables You Can Plant in September
Just because it's September, gardening season isn't over yet! There are still plenty of veggies you can plant now. Here are some of our top recommendations: Here are some veggies you can still plant in September: Lettuce - Little Gem is a great variety to start in September! It also can tolerate light frosts. Spinach - Bloomsdale Spinach, a cold-hardy beloved heirloom variety known for its thick, crinkly dark green leaves and rich, nutty flavor. Bunching Onions - a hardy, fas...
2026 Seed Catalog - Peppers of the World
We are so excited for our new 2026 Seed Catalog, packed with peppers, tomatoes, veggies and lots of recipes, growing tips and pepper growing info. Check out what we have coming in our newest Seed Catalog! Our seed catalog has 36 pages of colorful photos and info that is a great coffee or dinner table companion, and can be used in the kitchen, too! Dream up next season's vegetable garden with over 100 peppers and tons of tomatoes and vegetables to grow to have a variety of delicious harve...
Benefits of Gardening
Gardening offers a wide range of benefits including: Nutritious Food & Improved Diet: Freshly harvested vegetables have more nutrients than those that have traveled miles and days/weeks to get to the store. Your tastebuds know it too: a homegrown heirloom tomato always tastes way more amazing and complex than any store-bought tomatoes, especially when fresh-picked and still warm from the sun. When you garden, you can grow specialty peppers that are packed with flavor that you'd neve...
Low Water Vegetables
Wondering what are the best low water vegetables to grow? Here are a few of our suggestions along with tips for conserving water in your garden. #1 Favorite Low Water Vegetables: Peppers* Peppers need less water than many other vegetables. As tropical plants, they thrive in warm, well-draining soil and don't mind it drying out slightly between watering. The famous New Mexico Chiles are grown annually in the dry regions of Hatch Valley and Chimayó regions of New Mexico, and the Pueblo Ch...
