How many pepper plants should I grow?Knowing the right number of plants to grow is important. We all want to grow enough green chile for the summer months and even more to dry or freeze for the long winter/spring stretch. Plant 3-5 plants per person and 12-15 plants per 4-person family. * A large pepper plant will produce 3-4 lbs. of chiles during a growing season. As the peppers mature cut them off the branches so the plant will continue to flower and produce more peppers. Grow a large pepper transplant with these tips: Start...
Top 101 Chili Seeds to Try!We're reading this great book called 101 Chilies to Try Before You Die by David Floyd, and it features tons of the peppers we carry seeds for. :) If only we had more room, we'd grow all 100+ chile seeds that we carry every season! But for now we'll just grow several different chile seed varieties each year. It's hard to pick a favorite chile pepper, so we like to grow them all!See all of our chiles we carry in one place in our chile seed catalog »Some of our favorites include ...
Small Seed CompanySupporting small seed companies is a great way to diversify your garden and the world's seed diversity! To help keep seeds available for your vegetable garden that are not associated with GMOs, Bayer / Monsanto, then purchasing your seeds from small seed companies that sell non-GMO and Heirloom seeds is a small way you can help. Sandia Seed is a small seed company started by Patsy Coles, who loves growing New Mexican green chiles. She founded Sandia Seed as she found it was hard to get Ne...
Best Ghost Pepper SeedsSandia Seed has the best selection of Ghost Pepper seeds! Ghost Peppers are super hot peppers from India – and they're world-famous for the heat and flavor. Sandia Seed carries six different colors and flavors of ghost pepper seeds to grow in your garden! We have White Ghost Pepper seeds, and of course the classic Red Ghost Pepper as well as Chocolate Ghost Pepper seeds, and a striking brilliant Yellow Ghost Pepper seeds. Ghost Peppers make excellent salsa, check out our Ghost Pepper S...
Seed CatalogsMake sure to check our our new Seed Catalog, packed with peppers and heirloom tomatoes.Safe Seed Pledge:We support the Safe Seed Pledge. As signers, we pledge that we do not knowingly buy or sell genetically engineered seeds or plants. We wish to support agricultural progress that leads to healthier soils, genetically diverse agricultural ecosystems and ultimately people and communities. Our seeds are non-GMO and untreated. We have over 100 pepper seeds and 44 tomato seeds to look through, ...
Hatch Chile Salsa RecipeIf you grow our Hatch Chile seeds, then you probably know you use Hatch chiles in pretty much any recipe for great flavor and heat. Here's a twist on one of our favorite salsa recipes, using hot hatch chiles for the heat and flavor, and heirloom tomatoes for an amazing salsa. Hatch Chile Salsa Recipe Ingredients: 4 Cups of Diced Fresh Tomatoes (5-10 Heirloom Tomatoes) ~ or ~ 1 large can of whole tomatoes 1/2 Cup of Hatch Chile, roasted, deseeded & diced (use any heat desired, we lik...
Cyber Monday Garden DealsIf you're a gardener and you're looking for Cyber Monday Garden Deals, then look no further than SandiaSeed.com! Every year we have a big Cyber Monday Seed Sale so you can save on our seeds! This sale has ended. Did you miss this 2019 deal? Signup for our newsletter for upcoming sales and coupons! You can also stay tuned on discount seeds, sales, and growing tips that we post on social media, follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest. In 2019 for Cyber Monday we off...
Where can I buy Piquillo pepper seeds?Buy rare Piquillo pepper seeds from Sandia Seed! Piquillo Peppers are quite delicious, they have a smoky and almost buttery flavor when simply roasted with just a hint of spice. Piquillo peppers are hard to find in grocery stores and farmers markets as they are a European PDO (Protected Denomination of Origin) pepper, and cannot be commercially grown outside the Navarra, Spain region. So, unless you're getting imported Piquillo peppers (typically these come in jars, which are also hard t...
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 (...
Chili SeedsSandia Seed has the best chili seeds from around the world! We specialize in New Mexico Hatch Chile seed varieties including Green Chile seeds and Red Chile seeds. If you haven't had New Mexican green chile, you're missing out! While technically you have to grow these green chiles in the Hatch region of New Mexico to call them "Hatch chiles," we still think they taste amazing wherever they are grown, from California to Florida to Japan and beyond! Check out these farmers growi...
Chilli Seeds for SaleSandia Seed offers a huge selection of chilli seeds for sale. We sell chilli seeds to gardeners and growers around the world. While we specialize in Hatch Chile seeds from New Mexico, we also carry chilli seeds from Trinidad, Mexico, Spain, India, Africa, you name it! If you like to grow chilli seeds in your garden, make sure to check out our huge range of chilli seeds including our amazing rare pepper seeds from around the world, or shop for our chilli seeds for sale by different seed collec...
Growing Chile Seeds in JapanWe were excited to get these photos from one of our seed customers, Ryoichi A., in a small village of rural Osaka, Japan. They have been growing our NuMex Heritage Big Jims and other chiles in their beautiful fields. They recently ordered our Aji Limo Lemon Drop Pepper seeds, Serrano Seeds, Poblano Seeds, Red Cherry Hot Seeds, Carolina Reaper Seeds (the hottest pepper in the world!), Tabasco Seeds, NuMex Trick or Treat Habanero seeds (no heat), White Bhut Jolokia seeds, Peach Bhut Jolokia se...
Jalapeño SeedsSandia Seed has LOTS of different kinds of Jalapeno Seeds!Jalapeños are one of our favorite peppers to grow in the garden for lots of reasons: They're super tasty! Jalapeños are great for salsas Jalapeños make delicious poppers when stuffed with cheese and grilled Jalapeños are one of the first hot peppers to harvest each season, with some of our Jalapeño varieties ready from seed to harvest in just 65 days Jalapeños can be picked anytime, whether they are green or when they'...
Best Mulch for Tomatoes and PeppersThere are lots of options for the Best Mulch for Tomatoes and Peppers, you can use fine wood mulch, compost, grass clippings, paper mulch, fabric, straw, leaves or newspaper. We think the best mulches are grass clippings or good compost as they help feed the soil. Mulching can prevent a lot of problems in the garden. IMPORTANT NOTE: WHATEVER MULCH YOU USE, MAKE SURE NOT TO PILE MULCH UP AGAINST THE STEMS OF YOUR VEGGIES, OR YOU'LL SMOTHER AND ROT THEIR BASE! Shown below is a pepper plant ...
Hardening Off SeedlingsOther than overwatering, one of the most common mistakes new and experienced gardeners alike make when growing vegetables from seed is to not harden off the seedlings before transplanting outdoors. Don't skip this step! Have you ever planted your precious tomato or pepper seedlings and a few hours later notice that they are all wilted or the leaves get scalded or turn white? This is often from transplant shock and sunscald. If you do not expose your seedlings grown indoors to the sun a...
How to Grow Hot Peppers from SeedHere are our best tips for How to Grow Hot Peppers from Seed: Germinating pepper seeds is easy – IF you do all the right things. Read our best tips below for growing pepper seeds: Step #1 for Growing Hot Peppers from Seed: Keep the seeds consistently moist and warm – a seedling heat mat will greatly help in the success of getting the seeds to germinate. Pepper seeds sprout best when kept very warm at 80-90˚ F. Note: Pepper Seed Germination TimeGerminating pepper seeds sometimes takes a LON...
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.
How many pepper plants should I grow?
Knowing the right number of plants to grow is important. We all want to grow enough green chile for the summer months and even more to dry or freeze for the long winter/spring stretch. Plant 3-5 plants per person and 12-15 plants per 4-person family. * A large pepper plant will produce 3-4 lbs. of chiles during a growing season. As the peppers mature cut them off the branches so the plant will continue to flower and produce more peppers. Grow a large pepper transplant with these tips: Start...
Top 101 Chili Seeds to Try!
We're reading this great book called 101 Chilies to Try Before You Die by David Floyd, and it features tons of the peppers we carry seeds for. :) If only we had more room, we'd grow all 100+ chile seeds that we carry every season! But for now we'll just grow several different chile seed varieties each year. It's hard to pick a favorite chile pepper, so we like to grow them all!See all of our chiles we carry in one place in our chile seed catalog »Some of our favorites include ...
Small Seed Company
Supporting small seed companies is a great way to diversify your garden and the world's seed diversity! To help keep seeds available for your vegetable garden that are not associated with GMOs, Bayer / Monsanto, then purchasing your seeds from small seed companies that sell non-GMO and Heirloom seeds is a small way you can help. Sandia Seed is a small seed company started by Patsy Coles, who loves growing New Mexican green chiles. She founded Sandia Seed as she found it was hard to get Ne...
Best Ghost Pepper Seeds
Sandia Seed has the best selection of Ghost Pepper seeds! Ghost Peppers are super hot peppers from India – and they're world-famous for the heat and flavor. Sandia Seed carries six different colors and flavors of ghost pepper seeds to grow in your garden! We have White Ghost Pepper seeds, and of course the classic Red Ghost Pepper as well as Chocolate Ghost Pepper seeds, and a striking brilliant Yellow Ghost Pepper seeds. Ghost Peppers make excellent salsa, check out our Ghost Pepper S...
Seed Catalogs
Make sure to check our our new Seed Catalog, packed with peppers and heirloom tomatoes.Safe Seed Pledge:We support the Safe Seed Pledge. As signers, we pledge that we do not knowingly buy or sell genetically engineered seeds or plants. We wish to support agricultural progress that leads to healthier soils, genetically diverse agricultural ecosystems and ultimately people and communities. Our seeds are non-GMO and untreated. We have over 100 pepper seeds and 44 tomato seeds to look through, ...
Hatch Chile Salsa Recipe
If you grow our Hatch Chile seeds, then you probably know you use Hatch chiles in pretty much any recipe for great flavor and heat. Here's a twist on one of our favorite salsa recipes, using hot hatch chiles for the heat and flavor, and heirloom tomatoes for an amazing salsa. Hatch Chile Salsa Recipe Ingredients: 4 Cups of Diced Fresh Tomatoes (5-10 Heirloom Tomatoes) ~ or ~ 1 large can of whole tomatoes 1/2 Cup of Hatch Chile, roasted, deseeded & diced (use any heat desired, we lik...
Cyber Monday Garden Deals
If you're a gardener and you're looking for Cyber Monday Garden Deals, then look no further than SandiaSeed.com! Every year we have a big Cyber Monday Seed Sale so you can save on our seeds! This sale has ended. Did you miss this 2019 deal? Signup for our newsletter for upcoming sales and coupons! You can also stay tuned on discount seeds, sales, and growing tips that we post on social media, follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest. In 2019 for Cyber Monday we off...
Where can I buy Piquillo pepper seeds?
Buy rare Piquillo pepper seeds from Sandia Seed! Piquillo Peppers are quite delicious, they have a smoky and almost buttery flavor when simply roasted with just a hint of spice. Piquillo peppers are hard to find in grocery stores and farmers markets as they are a European PDO (Protected Denomination of Origin) pepper, and cannot be commercially grown outside the Navarra, Spain region. So, unless you're getting imported Piquillo peppers (typically these come in jars, which are also hard t...
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 (...
Chili Seeds
Sandia Seed has the best chili seeds from around the world! We specialize in New Mexico Hatch Chile seed varieties including Green Chile seeds and Red Chile seeds. If you haven't had New Mexican green chile, you're missing out! While technically you have to grow these green chiles in the Hatch region of New Mexico to call them "Hatch chiles," we still think they taste amazing wherever they are grown, from California to Florida to Japan and beyond! Check out these farmers growi...
Chilli Seeds for Sale
Sandia Seed offers a huge selection of chilli seeds for sale. We sell chilli seeds to gardeners and growers around the world. While we specialize in Hatch Chile seeds from New Mexico, we also carry chilli seeds from Trinidad, Mexico, Spain, India, Africa, you name it! If you like to grow chilli seeds in your garden, make sure to check out our huge range of chilli seeds including our amazing rare pepper seeds from around the world, or shop for our chilli seeds for sale by different seed collec...
Growing Chile Seeds in Japan
We were excited to get these photos from one of our seed customers, Ryoichi A., in a small village of rural Osaka, Japan. They have been growing our NuMex Heritage Big Jims and other chiles in their beautiful fields. They recently ordered our Aji Limo Lemon Drop Pepper seeds, Serrano Seeds, Poblano Seeds, Red Cherry Hot Seeds, Carolina Reaper Seeds (the hottest pepper in the world!), Tabasco Seeds, NuMex Trick or Treat Habanero seeds (no heat), White Bhut Jolokia seeds, Peach Bhut Jolokia se...
Jalapeño Seeds
Sandia Seed has LOTS of different kinds of Jalapeno Seeds!Jalapeños are one of our favorite peppers to grow in the garden for lots of reasons: They're super tasty! Jalapeños are great for salsas Jalapeños make delicious poppers when stuffed with cheese and grilled Jalapeños are one of the first hot peppers to harvest each season, with some of our Jalapeño varieties ready from seed to harvest in just 65 days Jalapeños can be picked anytime, whether they are green or when they'...
Best Mulch for Tomatoes and Peppers
There are lots of options for the Best Mulch for Tomatoes and Peppers, you can use fine wood mulch, compost, grass clippings, paper mulch, fabric, straw, leaves or newspaper. We think the best mulches are grass clippings or good compost as they help feed the soil. Mulching can prevent a lot of problems in the garden. IMPORTANT NOTE: WHATEVER MULCH YOU USE, MAKE SURE NOT TO PILE MULCH UP AGAINST THE STEMS OF YOUR VEGGIES, OR YOU'LL SMOTHER AND ROT THEIR BASE! Shown below is a pepper plant ...
Hardening Off Seedlings
Other than overwatering, one of the most common mistakes new and experienced gardeners alike make when growing vegetables from seed is to not harden off the seedlings before transplanting outdoors. Don't skip this step! Have you ever planted your precious tomato or pepper seedlings and a few hours later notice that they are all wilted or the leaves get scalded or turn white? This is often from transplant shock and sunscald. If you do not expose your seedlings grown indoors to the sun a...
How to Grow Hot Peppers from Seed
Here are our best tips for How to Grow Hot Peppers from Seed: Germinating pepper seeds is easy – IF you do all the right things. Read our best tips below for growing pepper seeds: Step #1 for Growing Hot Peppers from Seed: Keep the seeds consistently moist and warm – a seedling heat mat will greatly help in the success of getting the seeds to germinate. Pepper seeds sprout best when kept very warm at 80-90˚ F. Note: Pepper Seed Germination TimeGerminating pepper seeds sometimes takes a LON...
