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How to Start a Seed Library

September 2, 2024

Sharing seeds is one of the best ways for communities to share the love of gardening and growing food! Here are our top tips for starting a seed library in...

How to Start a Seed Library

September 2, 2024

Sharing seeds is one of the best ways for communities to share the love of gardening and growing food! Here are our top tips for starting a seed library in...

When to Pick Tomatoes

August 22, 2024

This Chef's Choice Orange Tomato is getting soft and ready to pick. How do you know when your tomatoes are ready? You know that tomatoes are ready to pick when...

When to Pick Tomatoes

August 22, 2024

This Chef's Choice Orange Tomato is getting soft and ready to pick. How do you know when your tomatoes are ready? You know that tomatoes are ready to pick when...

Garden Photo Contest - Win Free Seeds!

August 18, 2024

OUR CONTEST HAS ENDED! Congratulations to our three winners for entering our photo contest in August! Josh, Richard P. and Brant P. were the lucky recipients of $25 gift cards...

Garden Photo Contest - Win Free Seeds!

August 18, 2024

OUR CONTEST HAS ENDED! Congratulations to our three winners for entering our photo contest in August! Josh, Richard P. and Brant P. were the lucky recipients of $25 gift cards...

How long does it take for Padron peppers to grow?

August 16, 2024

How long does it take for Padron peppers to grow? Padron peppers are short season peppers, and they begin to harvest in about 65 days after starting from seed. These...

How long does it take for Padron peppers to grow?

August 16, 2024

How long does it take for Padron peppers to grow? Padron peppers are short season peppers, and they begin to harvest in about 65 days after starting from seed. These...

2025 Seed Catalog

August 12, 2024

Are you excited for the 2025 growing season? We sure are! Make sure to order our seed catalog to add to your winter reading and dreaming so you can grow...

2025 Seed Catalog

August 12, 2024

Are you excited for the 2025 growing season? We sure are! Make sure to order our seed catalog to add to your winter reading and dreaming so you can grow...

What Makes Hatch Chiles So Special?

August 12, 2024

What Makes Hatch Chiles So Special? It is said that these green chile varieties, grown in the region of Hatch, New Mexico, take on flavors from the unique terroir (terrior...

What Makes Hatch Chiles So Special?

August 12, 2024

What Makes Hatch Chiles So Special? It is said that these green chile varieties, grown in the region of Hatch, New Mexico, take on flavors from the unique terroir (terrior...

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from 1380 reviews

NH, USA in 5 gallon buckets

Quintessence of pepper flavor. Productive plant. Definitely will grow again.

M J Dubois

10/08/2025

Española Improved NuMex Chile Seeds - Robust Flavor and Early Maturity

Dynamite xx Hot peppers, 4 heat lovers only!

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,

Linda O

10/06/2025

Dynamite Green Chile Seeds - Extra Hot Variety at 12,000 Scoville

Prolific Peppers!

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!!

Cmartcookie

Jalapeño Jaloro Pepper Seeds - Disease Resistant and Medium Heat

Big Jims

Excellent peppers, large and meaty. Easy to grow from your seeds.

S Latta

10/04/2025

Big Jim Legacy Pepper Seeds - Flavor & Heat - A True New Mexico Chile

Tasty and prolific

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.

Melissa B

09/29/2025

Bloomsdale Spinach Seeds - Easy to Grow, Popular, and Nutritious

Beautiful Reds

Love this Hatch variety chili, next best thing to living in New Mexico! Yep, they grow in Oklahoma too!

Buster Holzer

09/27/2025

Hatch Red Medium - Joe E. Parker Chile Seeds - Popular Heirloom with Great Flavor

Awesome peppers!

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.

Dre Snow

09/25/2025

Hatch Green Medium - Big Jim Chile Seeds - Nice Heat & Great Flavor

Wow! BIG JIM PEPPERS

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!

BIG MARK

09/24/2025

Excellent!

Prudens purple was huge, productive, and delicious. Very crack resistant. Amazing!

Jamie

Pruden's Purple Tomato Seeds - Old Family Heirloom - Sweet Taste

Jalapeno to Chipotle

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.

Dale DuVall

09/23/2025

Jalapeño Early Seeds - Short Season Pepper and Easy to Grow

Big Jim...great roasting Chilis

I grow chilis for seed from Sandia in Wichita Kansas. They take longer for harvesting but make great roasting Chilis. I call them WichiHatch Chilis.

Roasting Big JIm

Orange Habanero

Seeds were amazing with great germination rates. Very stable strain that had little to no variation between plants! Will be running them again!

A. Clough

Habanero Orange Seeds - Extra Hot Peppers with Intense Flavor

Great seeds

Just as described. Wonderful Habanero flavor without the heat. This makes the best Chili and we love the flavor.

Timothy Smith

Habanero Trick or Treat NuMex - No Heat - Pepper Seeds

Seeds grew quickly and in May I transplanted them into my garden. Kept three plants to a container and the did great in the garden without falling over. Great harvest.

Thai Hot Pepper Seeds - Extra Hot Peppers - Asian Cuisine Zing

Tomatillos galore!

I had 6 plants that produced all of the tomatillos that I could use. I gave my neighbors enough for a batch of green salsa too. Easy to germinate and great producers. We live in a short growing season in the mountains of Idaho and they did great!

Dave Woods

Tomatillo Seeds - Verde - Delightfully Tart for Salsa Verde

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