Fall Vegetable Garden Tips2019 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...
Long Hot PeppersLooking for long hot peppers? We have an assortment of spicy long peppers that are a great addition to your pepper and vegetable garden!One of our favorite long hot peppers is the Goat Horn Hot Pepper. It is quite prolific, and has great red color when fully mature. Here are some photos of a loaded down plant. It can be quite pretty in pots too, larger 5+ gallon pots are best. For other long hot peppers, you can also try growing Cayenne Pepper seeds; or Chile de Arbol seeds, with their b...
Homemade Marinated Piquillo Peppers RecipePiquillo 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...
Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce RecipeCarolina 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...
Green Chile Recipe with Collard GreensIt's a great time of year to make some Green Chile stew! Do you ever add extras into your green chile stews like kale, collards, spinach, zucchini, squash, tomatillos, tomatoes, etc? We love to sneak in lots of extra flavor, vitamins and fiber with the deliciousness of homegrown green chile. Garden Green Chile Stew Recipe for Crockpot Here's a rough recipe (add whatever you want!): Ingredients: Any variety of Roasted green chiles, peeled and chopped Onions (chopped green onions...
Green Chile Stew RecipeNothing beats homegrown, homemade green chile stew 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 make this stew vegan!) 3 Potatoes, diced (...
Cilantro SeedsDo you grow cilantro? Love it or hate it? We love it, it goes so perfectly with hot peppers and tomatoes to make the best salsas! We find that salsa just isn't as good without the punch of that amazing cilantro flavor. Even many of those who hate cilantro think salsa with cilantro is delicious! Something is magical about how the flavors combine with tomatoes, hot peppers, garlic, lime juice, onion and cilantro... fresh homemade salsa is definitely one of our favorite foods!Try some Cilant...
White Green Chile RecipeHere's a great white chile recipe that uses the amazing flavors of roasted green chile from the garden! During harvest season, we also throw in a few apples if we have an abundance of them, it's a nice way to use up some apples, thickens and adds a hint of sweetness to the chile. White Green Chile Recipe: • 3-4 Cups of white beans, cooked (canned or cooked fresh) • 1 Cup cooked, chopped chicken • 3 cups chicken stock (or bone broth/vegetable broth) • 2 diced potatoes • 1-2+ App...
New Mexico Red Chile Sauce with Fresh Red ChileFresh red chile is a delicacy and is hard to find at supermarkets as it is very perishable. Grow your own red chile for a little taste of heaven in late summer! New Mexico Red Chile Saucewith Fresh Red Chile INGREDIENTS fresh roasted red chile, peeled, de-seeded and chopped (however many you have on hand) 1-3+ Garlic cloves to taste, peeled 1 Tablespoon of Chopped Onion Salt to taste (1/2 teaspoon) Dash of Cumin, Oregano 1 tablespoon of Honey (optional) 1 Tablespoon of Peanut or Light Ol...
Why do you call your seeds Hatch?Here is a question asking why we call some of our seeds Hatch: “I'm curious about how your Hatch varieties compare to the peppers we have successfully grown that do not have the Hatch designation: Numex Sandia Select, Anaheim Heirloom, Big Jim Heirloom. We've had good luck with them and find the Numex, especially, great for roasting. But, I'm intrigued by the Hatch designation. How would they be different for us. We garden in southeast Utah (near Moab) at about 4500 feet. I'm ...
Homegrown Sambal Oelek RecipeHomegrown Sambal Oelek Recipe This delicious spicy condiment is delicious on everything from stir fries to soups to sandwiches or even just with some crackers or chips. Kick it up a notch with hotter peppers, and feel free to mix and match hot peppers for a deeper range of flavor. We like to use whatever hot peppers we have on hand! INGREDIENTS 1 pound of homegrown red chile, washed & de-stemmed(use any kind of red chile you are growing, such as Cayenne peppers, Goat Horn peppers, ripe ...
Best Pepper SeedsWe love getting notes and photos from our happy customers! Here's some photos from Bill in Wisconsin, who wrote: “The Best Seeds! Here's an update. Incredible Wisconsin grow this year! This system took me months to plan and put in place and worth every minute.” Wow, what an amazing pepper garden, Bill! Looks like you're making all sorts of deliciousness with your hot peppers. Thanks for sharing!Check out Bill's photos below: We love hearing your stories and seeing phot...
Growing Hot Peppers in 6B in Nova ScotiaHere's one of our seed customer's recent question: Pepper Growing Question: I live in the South shore of Nova Scotia and my husband wants me to grow jalapeno peppers or habanaros. I am a zone 6b. what would you suggest? Answer:We'd recommend any of our short season peppers, such as our Early Jalapeno or our pretty Yellow Jalapeno. Find lots more of our top picks for peppers to grow in shorter growing seasons here: Here are some of our top tips for Growing Peppers Faster: ...
Best Hatch Chile Seeds ReviewAnother happy customer review, thanks for sharing, Michele!We love hearing stories of gardeners growing our Hatch chile seeds all over the country! Because if you can't live in New Mexico, at least you can grow a little New Mexico in your garden, right?! “Hello — Last year, a friend gave me...and I purchased several packages of Hatch green chile, Big Jim & Anaheim seeds. I planted them as suggested indoors about 8 weeks ahead of spring...then planted the small seedlings when the r...
Ornamental Pepper: NuMex EasterThe Ornamental Pepper NuMex Easter is gorgeous in pastels! Also great for drying at the end of the season for use as hot pepper flakes or to add to salsa. Beautiful and delicious! View more of our Ornamental Peppers » Ornamental Peppers are not only beautiful, they are quite prolific! And, contrary to popular belief, you can eat ornamental peppers! They are perfect peppers for making hot sauces, pepper flakes or powder, or to use in any recipes such as for salsa.
Orange Peppers with Black SeedsThese Manzano peppers are HOT and delicious! The Manzano Pepper is the only chile to have black seeds. The flowers are a stunning purple and the plant has fuzzy leaves. It is part of the Capsicum pubescens species from the Andes region making it a cool climate chile pepper. It prefers to grow in a protected spot out of fierce sunlight and wind, such as on your patio. Provide it with a large container and a climbing trellis. If protected from frost it can live for 15 years and grow a vine over...
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.
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...
Long Hot Peppers
Looking for long hot peppers? We have an assortment of spicy long peppers that are a great addition to your pepper and vegetable garden!One of our favorite long hot peppers is the Goat Horn Hot Pepper. It is quite prolific, and has great red color when fully mature. Here are some photos of a loaded down plant. It can be quite pretty in pots too, larger 5+ gallon pots are best. For other long hot peppers, you can also try growing Cayenne Pepper seeds; or Chile de Arbol seeds, with their b...
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...
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...
Green Chile Recipe with Collard Greens
It's a great time of year to make some Green Chile stew! Do you ever add extras into your green chile stews like kale, collards, spinach, zucchini, squash, tomatillos, tomatoes, etc? We love to sneak in lots of extra flavor, vitamins and fiber with the deliciousness of homegrown green chile. Garden Green Chile Stew Recipe for Crockpot Here's a rough recipe (add whatever you want!): Ingredients: Any variety of Roasted green chiles, peeled and chopped Onions (chopped green onions...
Green Chile Stew Recipe
Nothing beats homegrown, homemade green chile stew 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 make this stew vegan!) 3 Potatoes, diced (...
Cilantro Seeds
Do you grow cilantro? Love it or hate it? We love it, it goes so perfectly with hot peppers and tomatoes to make the best salsas! We find that salsa just isn't as good without the punch of that amazing cilantro flavor. Even many of those who hate cilantro think salsa with cilantro is delicious! Something is magical about how the flavors combine with tomatoes, hot peppers, garlic, lime juice, onion and cilantro... fresh homemade salsa is definitely one of our favorite foods!Try some Cilant...
White Green Chile Recipe
Here's a great white chile recipe that uses the amazing flavors of roasted green chile from the garden! During harvest season, we also throw in a few apples if we have an abundance of them, it's a nice way to use up some apples, thickens and adds a hint of sweetness to the chile. White Green Chile Recipe: • 3-4 Cups of white beans, cooked (canned or cooked fresh) • 1 Cup cooked, chopped chicken • 3 cups chicken stock (or bone broth/vegetable broth) • 2 diced potatoes • 1-2+ App...
New Mexico Red Chile Sauce with Fresh Red Chile
Fresh red chile is a delicacy and is hard to find at supermarkets as it is very perishable. Grow your own red chile for a little taste of heaven in late summer! New Mexico Red Chile Saucewith Fresh Red Chile INGREDIENTS fresh roasted red chile, peeled, de-seeded and chopped (however many you have on hand) 1-3+ Garlic cloves to taste, peeled 1 Tablespoon of Chopped Onion Salt to taste (1/2 teaspoon) Dash of Cumin, Oregano 1 tablespoon of Honey (optional) 1 Tablespoon of Peanut or Light Ol...
Why do you call your seeds Hatch?
Here is a question asking why we call some of our seeds Hatch: “I'm curious about how your Hatch varieties compare to the peppers we have successfully grown that do not have the Hatch designation: Numex Sandia Select, Anaheim Heirloom, Big Jim Heirloom. We've had good luck with them and find the Numex, especially, great for roasting. But, I'm intrigued by the Hatch designation. How would they be different for us. We garden in southeast Utah (near Moab) at about 4500 feet. I'm ...
Homegrown Sambal Oelek Recipe
Homegrown Sambal Oelek Recipe This delicious spicy condiment is delicious on everything from stir fries to soups to sandwiches or even just with some crackers or chips. Kick it up a notch with hotter peppers, and feel free to mix and match hot peppers for a deeper range of flavor. We like to use whatever hot peppers we have on hand! INGREDIENTS 1 pound of homegrown red chile, washed & de-stemmed(use any kind of red chile you are growing, such as Cayenne peppers, Goat Horn peppers, ripe ...
Best Pepper Seeds
We love getting notes and photos from our happy customers! Here's some photos from Bill in Wisconsin, who wrote: “The Best Seeds! Here's an update. Incredible Wisconsin grow this year! This system took me months to plan and put in place and worth every minute.” Wow, what an amazing pepper garden, Bill! Looks like you're making all sorts of deliciousness with your hot peppers. Thanks for sharing!Check out Bill's photos below: We love hearing your stories and seeing phot...
Growing Hot Peppers in 6B in Nova Scotia
Here's one of our seed customer's recent question: Pepper Growing Question: I live in the South shore of Nova Scotia and my husband wants me to grow jalapeno peppers or habanaros. I am a zone 6b. what would you suggest? Answer:We'd recommend any of our short season peppers, such as our Early Jalapeno or our pretty Yellow Jalapeno. Find lots more of our top picks for peppers to grow in shorter growing seasons here: Here are some of our top tips for Growing Peppers Faster: ...
Best Hatch Chile Seeds Review
Another happy customer review, thanks for sharing, Michele!We love hearing stories of gardeners growing our Hatch chile seeds all over the country! Because if you can't live in New Mexico, at least you can grow a little New Mexico in your garden, right?! “Hello — Last year, a friend gave me...and I purchased several packages of Hatch green chile, Big Jim & Anaheim seeds. I planted them as suggested indoors about 8 weeks ahead of spring...then planted the small seedlings when the r...
Ornamental Pepper: NuMex Easter
The Ornamental Pepper NuMex Easter is gorgeous in pastels! Also great for drying at the end of the season for use as hot pepper flakes or to add to salsa. Beautiful and delicious! View more of our Ornamental Peppers » Ornamental Peppers are not only beautiful, they are quite prolific! And, contrary to popular belief, you can eat ornamental peppers! They are perfect peppers for making hot sauces, pepper flakes or powder, or to use in any recipes such as for salsa.
Orange Peppers with Black Seeds
These Manzano peppers are HOT and delicious! The Manzano Pepper is the only chile to have black seeds. The flowers are a stunning purple and the plant has fuzzy leaves. It is part of the Capsicum pubescens species from the Andes region making it a cool climate chile pepper. It prefers to grow in a protected spot out of fierce sunlight and wind, such as on your patio. Provide it with a large container and a climbing trellis. If protected from frost it can live for 15 years and grow a vine over...
