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  1. Time for Fresh Roasted Green Chile It’s time again for New Mexico to be blanketed by the perfume of roasting green chiles. Hatch green chiles are grown in a small hot dry valley in the southwest corner of New Mexico. Green chile, which ranges in temperature from spicy to incendiary, are to New Mexican food what tomatoes are to Italian food. They are found everywhere in sauces, stews, salsas, and delicious stuffed and fried for chile rellenos. If you don’t grow your own green chiles from seed, you can try to find them at farme...
  2. Bhut jolokia is viciously HOT! The famous Bhut jolokia at over 1,000,000 scoville heat units is so popular. Could it be that it is rare and unique? Or that only insane people place it on their lips? It is fun to grow and quite a conversation piece. I grow hundreds of them and collect the seeds. It is fun to hand someone a whole pepper, and watch them jump back as if the blistering heat inside the pepper will attack them from 3 ft away. But, once the pepper has been broken open. Watch Out! You must have hand protection, ...
  3. Tomato Tip to Thwart Birds! TOMATO TIP “I put decoys out well before my tomatoes begin to ripen. Big, red Christmas ornaments hanging here and there among my tomato plants. Birds will see those pretty red balls and think they are about to get a tasty meal. But all the peck, peck, pecking gets them nowhere. They might try several of them over a period of days until they figure out that there is nothing worth eating in THIS garden!” – CINDY AT PINEYWOODS HERB FARM We found this great tip on thwarting birds from eating y...
  4. NuMex Jalmundo is back! We are excited to announce we now have the NuMex Jalmundo Jalapeno seeds in stock! There is a limited supply, so the seed count in each packet is now 10 seeds. If you have 10 plants growing in your garden this summer you will be able to supply the whole neighborhood with jalapenos! This pepper is non-gmo and open-pollinated and the seeds can be saved to grow the following season. Why is the NuMex Jalmundo so great? It's an extra large jalapeno developed for America's love of jalapen...
  5. Hottest Pepper in the World As of October 2023, Pepper X has been declared by Guinness World Records as the hottest pepper in the world! Read more about the new hottest pepper in the world in 2023 » The hottest pepper in the world up until October 2023 was the Carolina Reaper! In October 2023, the Guinness World Records declared Ed Currie's Pepper X the hottest pepper in the world. Can you buy Pepper X seeds? Not yet.Read more about the new hot pepper record » Time will tell if another pepper can stand up to thei...
  6. 98% of New Mexico Green Chile is Direct Seeded New Mexico Chile is a warm-season crop that requires a long, frost-free season to produce good-quality, high yields. Almost all NM commercial chile is directly planted by seed into warm fertile soil. Keep them warm! Chiles do not thrive when temperatures are between 40° F and 60° F and can die from a light frost. The optimum period for direct seed planting of chile is between March 1 and June 15th. The early green crop will be ready for harvest about 120 days after planting. The red crop will...
  7. Hot Pepper Seeds If you're looking for hot pepper seeds, green chile seeds or so-hot-it-will-give-you-hiccups super hot peppers, you've come to the right place. Sandia Seed came to be because we wanted to offer a better variety of pepper seeds to the home gardener. We found that a lot of the New Mexican green chile varieties were not easy to come by for gardeners, so we decided to work with New Mexican farmers to bring their heirloom green chiles and peppers to the home gardeners and urban gardeners o...
  8. Seed Planting Information It is easy to start seeds indoors. You will need small containers, filled with soil, water, seeds, warmth, and bright light. Tip: Seeds germinate in half the time with a heated seedling mat under them. Small styrofoam /plastic cups or plastic seedling trays with individual cells work best. Your pots must have drainage holes so water can drain completely out. Fill each cup/cell with at least 3” (up to 5-6” is fine) of bagged potting soil. Moisten the soil completely with water. Tip: Seedling ...
  9. 10 Reasons Growing Peppers is Good for Your Health! Did you know that growing green chile, hot peppers & veggies is good for your health? Here's our favorite 10 reasons: Gardening burns calories - up to 330 calories an hour for light gardening work! Gardening helps your heart! Gardening for 30 minutes a few times a week can help reduce heart disease. Gardening reduces stress! Being surrounded by plants improves your health by enhancing your mood Gardening gives meaning to your day – growing vegetables, especially green chile peppers i...
  10. Grow Big Tomatoes! This tomato looks good and smells even better, but I’m not buying it for $6.99/lb! It’s just too easy to grow huge yummy tomatoes all summer long. Start with beef-steak seed varieties like Mortgage Lifter, Big Rainbow, Hillbilly, Pineapple, and Brandywine. Transplant seedlings into larger containers at least twice before moving them to the garden. Transplant your tomatoes outside as early as possible into good soil. Harden them off, set the plants deeply, and protect new transplants with wate...
  11. Plant Seeds for 2016 Now! The time is now to plan your garden and get your seeds started indoors! Every garden has its own personality, just like every gardener has their own personality. Is your garden the ‘very precise decisions all the way’ or a ‘let’s just see what happens’ plan? It really doesn’t matter, but what matters now is starting tomato and pepper seeds indoors. If you start your seeds early, your plants will be larger and have better root systems developed before being transplanted outside. If you're ...