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...
Seed ReviewsSEED REVIEWS Thank you to all of our seed customers over the years, your continued patronage helps support our small, woman-owned seed business! We love sharing the love of growing chile peppers with people, and appreciate your kind words. Please see just a small sampling of our happy seed customer reviews below! ★★★★★ Surprisingly productive "Bought (Guajillo) seeds last year(2024). Started early indoors with heat mat. Didn't have high expectations as I live in northern Michigan...
Seed LibraryWE LOVE SEED LIBRARIES!Many libraries are starting to offer Seed Libraries, which is a wonderful trend! A seed library is a place where the community can get seeds for free (or sometimes with a nominal fee). Many seed libraries are now opening up in public libraries and community centers, and we love the idea of sharing seeds! Seed Libraries encourage everyone to try to grow their own food, even if their budget is limited. What's also great about a seed library is that you can donate your...
“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.”“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” ~ Janet Kilburn Phillips So True! Every year we learn something new. In the many years of growing chile pepper seeds, tomato seeds, and other vegetables, we've always learned new things every season! To help you along, check out our top tips for avoiding some of the "experiments" with your peppers that won't go so well.Below is a list of the most common "experiments" we recommend you not try when growing chile pep...
Yellow JalapeñoYellow Jalapeño Yellow Jalapeño seeds are easy to grow, and these yellow beauties will certainly please in the garden! Our NuMex Lemon Spice Yellow Jalapeño is a yellow jalapeño that ripens as early as 65 days after germinating – which means you can enjoy these yellow gems earlier than most other peppers! They're great in salsas, stuffed as poppers, on tacos, or any other dish you want to add spice to! These novel Yellow Jalapeños are sure to attract attention as they are so bright an...
Happy 1st Day of Spring!In 2019, the first day of spring is March 20th – that's today! Yay for spring. We have lots of our chile pepper seeds started, and it won't be long before we can plant them outside here in the West. If you're looking to start peppers from seed, it's not too late – keep them nice and toasty warm at 80-90˚ F and they'll sprout quickly. If you want to get some peppers started quickly, check out our Is it Too Late to Start Seeds? blog post which has short season recommendation...
Shishito RecipeIf 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...
Heirloom Tomato & Pepper SeedsCheck out all of our delicious Heirloom Tomato and Pepper Seeds you can grow easily in your garden!
National Hot Sauce DayHappy 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...
Marigold TomatoesMarigolds + Tomatoes: Companion Planting Flowers are good for Vegetable GardensThey work as natural pest control and attract pollinators. We grow lots of flowers with our Chile Peppers & Tomatoes and other vegetables. Perennials and self-sowing annuals like Marigolds and Nasturtiums benefit the vegetable garden by offering lots of food and shelter for native pollinators and honeybees. Which means: more PEPPERS & TOMATOES! If you grow Hot Pepper Seeds, Hatch Chile Seeds, Sweet Pep...
Cheap Vegetable SeedsLooking for cheap vegetable seeds? Check out our discounted seed 3-packs, with three of our most popular varieties. Our Chimayo, Big Jim & Sandia Select Green Chile Seeds 3-pack has 90 seeds total for just $6.35! Now that's a great deal, you can grow a huge plot of these famous New Mexican chiles in your backyard garden or urban farm for under $7. Check out this Wyoming gardener's massive chile garden and harvest photos below – she grows a HUGE harvest of Big Jim green chiles ev...
Carolina Reaper Seeds - Best GerminationWe have our high-quality Carolina Reaper seeds for sale! Carolina Reaper peppers are the hottest peppers in the world. People love to grow them to use for hot sauce or Carolina Reaper Salsa. Great Germination:Our Carolina Reaper seeds have great germination, we have had numerous customers report that they have had nearly 100% germination of our Carolina Reaper seeds. Super hot pepper seeds are notoriously slow to sprout, the trick is to keep them warm (80-90˚ F), which ensures a much hi...
Harissa Recipe - with Homegrown Hatch ChilesHarissa 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...
New Year’s Resolutions for GardenersHere 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...
Last Minute Gardener GiftsGift 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...
Instagram T-Shirt WinnersHappy 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 ...
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!
I got these to make Chipotle chilis. These fruit early and are mild-ish when green, but when they ripen, they are perfect for smoking and drying with great flavor and nice heat. Don't plant too many as they are quite prolific.
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...
Seed Reviews
SEED REVIEWS Thank you to all of our seed customers over the years, your continued patronage helps support our small, woman-owned seed business! We love sharing the love of growing chile peppers with people, and appreciate your kind words. Please see just a small sampling of our happy seed customer reviews below! ★★★★★ Surprisingly productive "Bought (Guajillo) seeds last year(2024). Started early indoors with heat mat. Didn't have high expectations as I live in northern Michigan...
Seed Library
WE LOVE SEED LIBRARIES!Many libraries are starting to offer Seed Libraries, which is a wonderful trend! A seed library is a place where the community can get seeds for free (or sometimes with a nominal fee). Many seed libraries are now opening up in public libraries and community centers, and we love the idea of sharing seeds! Seed Libraries encourage everyone to try to grow their own food, even if their budget is limited. What's also great about a seed library is that you can donate your...
“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.”
“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” ~ Janet Kilburn Phillips So True! Every year we learn something new. In the many years of growing chile pepper seeds, tomato seeds, and other vegetables, we've always learned new things every season! To help you along, check out our top tips for avoiding some of the "experiments" with your peppers that won't go so well.Below is a list of the most common "experiments" we recommend you not try when growing chile pep...
Yellow Jalapeño
Yellow Jalapeño Yellow Jalapeño seeds are easy to grow, and these yellow beauties will certainly please in the garden! Our NuMex Lemon Spice Yellow Jalapeño is a yellow jalapeño that ripens as early as 65 days after germinating – which means you can enjoy these yellow gems earlier than most other peppers! They're great in salsas, stuffed as poppers, on tacos, or any other dish you want to add spice to! These novel Yellow Jalapeños are sure to attract attention as they are so bright an...
Happy 1st Day of Spring!
In 2019, the first day of spring is March 20th – that's today! Yay for spring. We have lots of our chile pepper seeds started, and it won't be long before we can plant them outside here in the West. If you're looking to start peppers from seed, it's not too late – keep them nice and toasty warm at 80-90˚ F and they'll sprout quickly. If you want to get some peppers started quickly, check out our Is it Too Late to Start Seeds? blog post which has short season recommendation...
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...
Heirloom Tomato & Pepper Seeds
Check out all of our delicious Heirloom Tomato and Pepper Seeds you can grow easily in your garden!
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...
Marigold Tomatoes
Marigolds + Tomatoes: Companion Planting Flowers are good for Vegetable GardensThey work as natural pest control and attract pollinators. We grow lots of flowers with our Chile Peppers & Tomatoes and other vegetables. Perennials and self-sowing annuals like Marigolds and Nasturtiums benefit the vegetable garden by offering lots of food and shelter for native pollinators and honeybees. Which means: more PEPPERS & TOMATOES! If you grow Hot Pepper Seeds, Hatch Chile Seeds, Sweet Pep...
Cheap Vegetable Seeds
Looking for cheap vegetable seeds? Check out our discounted seed 3-packs, with three of our most popular varieties. Our Chimayo, Big Jim & Sandia Select Green Chile Seeds 3-pack has 90 seeds total for just $6.35! Now that's a great deal, you can grow a huge plot of these famous New Mexican chiles in your backyard garden or urban farm for under $7. Check out this Wyoming gardener's massive chile garden and harvest photos below – she grows a HUGE harvest of Big Jim green chiles ev...
Carolina Reaper Seeds - Best Germination
We have our high-quality Carolina Reaper seeds for sale! Carolina Reaper peppers are the hottest peppers in the world. People love to grow them to use for hot sauce or Carolina Reaper Salsa. Great Germination:Our Carolina Reaper seeds have great germination, we have had numerous customers report that they have had nearly 100% germination of our Carolina Reaper seeds. Super hot pepper seeds are notoriously slow to sprout, the trick is to keep them warm (80-90˚ F), which ensures a much hi...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
