Ordered two sets of aji amarillo from 2024 season, but ended up with a mild variety, possibly mad hatter in both bags growing in 2025.
These had a nice heat for adding to salsas or making poppers. Very productive plant loaded with peppers!
Wow, these were so productive, and much easier to see than green zucchini, so they didn't hide as easily resulting in giant baseball bat sized squash! Delicious at any size, I love making these into fritters. The seeds had excellent germination, every one sprouted in the mounds, so I had to thin them out. Next time I'll only put two seeds per mound, I dislike culling the extras.
I grew these as I wanted to grow my own okra to eat, but I had no idea how beautiful the blooms are! These are very ornamental in addition to being edible. I have them in a container garden on my patio, and they were my prettiest pots. Plus, the okra was delicious! My okra plants started from your excellent seeds grew great in large pots.
Can’t wait to sow them... and your seed catalog is dreamy, I had no idea how many peppers I wanted to grow. I also like that you have lots of heirloom tomatoes and herbs, too.
I put these in a large patio pot, and they were so cute – they produced lots of sweet flavored cherry tomatoes, they never made it inside. Great for snacking when hanging out on the patio! I planted them with a two basil plants so it was a very pretty pot! I don't know why I didn't start growing tomatoes in pots sooner, I always thought I needed a garden bed. The best sun is on our patio so I was so excited to try these. I'm going to grow these and your Tumbling Tom Tomatoes this year - adding another couple pots. Hopefully we'll have lots more tomatoes to snack on plus maybe enough so that some will make it into the house to use for salads.
One of our Principe Borghese plants grew nearly eight feet tall and kept producing tomatoes all the way to the top! The fruits are also great for drying because they are firm and don't have much juice/moisture. They made great sun-dried tomatoes (we used our oven at 225˚F to dry them for about 4 hours, so I guess I should call them sun-grown dried tomatoes). 😆 They are DELICIOUS when marinated in olive oil. They're great tossed with pasta and garlic.
Exquisite flavor and heat... so addictive! Good seeds, nearly every one germinated with a heat mat under the tray. Productive plants, make sure to start them early if you live in a short season climate like me up in Minnesota. I made a lot of hot sauce and salsa with these devils.
These were my favorite peppers for hot sauce and salsas last season. Hope you get seeds back in stock soon so I can plant them again this season! :)
Wow, these are like gems when they start changing from deep purple to red, they look like rubies! And they are tasty, nice thick flesh, great for poppers or to chop into salsa and pico-de-gallo. Thank you for offering these, the plants make a great conversation piece as we put them in pretty ceramic pots on our patio.
I used these to make my infamous lasagna, they have such beautiful color and make a rich & vibrant orange-pink-red sauce! Very productive, and early, and the tomatoes were HUGE! They are so pretty when sliced... very tropical looking, just the color alone makes your mouth water.
I read your post about winter sowing and ordered this set of seeds to start in my recycled vinegar jugs from pickling season. WOW! It's incredible to see them all sprout so easily in these free, little mini-outdoor-greenhouses. I'm excited to see them take off and will transplant into my garden beds in another month or so during a warm spell. Thanks for the great idea!!
I love these so much for tomato & marinara sauces! They are very large – often over 1 pound – with very few seeds and the plants are verrry productive! These are also wonderful for fresh pico.
Glad you have these back in stock, you have the best reaper seeds I've found. Good germination, and the plants grow real reaper pods - complete with little tails! Nice and hot, I love to make salsa with them.
So, as a life long BOC fan and an avid gardener who loves the quality of seeds I’ve always received from Sandia Seeds. I just had to have this shirt. It rocks! I ordered a couple more for some fellow BOC fans as well. Great quality and the graphic is outstanding!
I bought this seeds because this is the kind of peppers used in Peru to prepare ceviche.
Received September 22. Seeded some weeks later. Full sun. I didn't watered, just the Central Florida rain. The plants are a tolerating the winter temperatures and heavy rain. I transplanted 1 for my beloved best friend (she's Peruvian ❤️❤️❤️) to a smaller pot and left it in same place and survived.
Take a look of the dates at the photos to appreciate how fast they have grown.
Wow, these are HOT!! Very productive plants, one of the earliest peppers to have pods on the plant. I also picked some of them green and they are still nice and hot when green. Perfect in salsa, or for spicy poppers. If you are tired of mild jalapenos, this one's for you! I love them. My husband, who've I turned into a lover of all things spicy, will even try a popper or two of these along with our milder regular early Jalapenos and Jalapeno Jaloro which we also grow. The Jaloros are fun as they start out in pale yellow from the get-go, whereas these Lemon Spice are the usual Jalapeno green before they turn to bright yellow. I love that you have so many varieties of jalapenos, we'll like to grow them all over the years.
I absolutely adore this parsley variety for its bright classic parsley flavor and how effortlessly it grows. It’s so productive that I can harvest it several times in a single season, and it just keeps coming back. The plants are strong and beautiful so they make a great companion plants with my flowers and other veggies. The dark green leaves are incredibly flavorful. I like to put it in a food processor and freeze it in ice cube trays to add some fresh parsley flavor all winter long. It grows beautifully both in containers and in the ground, adapting so well that it feels almost unstoppable. It is a biennial – so it blooms the second season but the pollinators love it so I leave it bee. I'm hoping it will reseed on it's own as I can never have enough parsley. I particularly like to add it to bean salads (chickpeas, tomatoes, parsley, garlic, green onions, lemon juice, olive oil, and throw in a couple chopped peppers to make a delicious fresh-tasting side dish!)
I love giving this seed catalog to my gardening friends. Most gardeners have grown a couple pepper varieties like standard bells, so when they see this catalog with over 100 different kinds of peppers, their eyes light up! So many to choose from! I love some of the specialty sweet peppers myself, but also grow some of the hot peppers like Habaneros and of course a few varieties of jalapenos - I love the yellow spice jalapeno, so HOT and pretty! This seed catalog, paired with a seed gift card, becomes the perfect gift – the gardener can circle their dream varieties in the catalog and then use the card to order exactly those seeds. Nothing better than sharing the love of chile with the world!
Now I'm returning the favor and gifting this wonderful food garden seed set to my Mom! I grew a very productive vegetable garden this year in my backyard and at my community garden. On our patio I grew in some containers, too – I had a dill pot, a carrot pot, a cilantro pot. I love that this set comes with marigolds, the seeds were so easy to direct sow and grew into beautiful plants that really seemed to help the tomatoes grow healthy and large – plus they were so pretty, too! I didn't realize they were edible, so I was happy to learn that you can sprinkle the blossoms into salads and soups, so I tried that too, it's fun to add a burst of color! The little gem lettuce was exceptional, sweet and crunchy and was also easy to direct sow. I also planted a three-sister garden bed, and grew the pole beans up the corn and had green beans coming out my ears, plus ears of corn, too, while the zukes grew happily at the base. It was fun to grow new vegetables that I haven't grown before, so this was the perfect gift to get me trying new things. The cayenne peppers were productive, and paired perfectly with the Rio Grande tomatoes and cilantro to make a delicious pico-de-gallo. I grew the sugar snap peas in the spring and fall and they were good eating right in the garden. I think the more varieties of veggies you grow the more success you have... and it extends the harvest season so we were eating fresh veggies all season long.
Sandia Seed’s catalog is a pepper-centric seed catalog that doubles as a lightweight growing guide and recipe book! If your main interest is chiles and productive tomatoes, this is your catalog! It's particularly appealing if you want New Mexico–style Hatch chiles, which is how I found Sandia Seed in the first place.
I'm going to order one for my husband. Love the soft fabric on these, and I've been wearing it for a couple years now without it getting ratty. Great quality and I love the graphic!
Love these special little delicious cherry peppers! I like to stuff these with cream cheese and then put them under the broiler or on the grill to roast them for appetizers (or I've also used vegan brie cheese from Rebel Cheese that works great, too!)
First time ordering from Sandia Seed, all the pepper seeds did great. I have ordered these seeds from other seed companies but the had poor germination, so I was happy to find Sandia. Out of the eight seeds i planted in my old aerogarden seed starter tray, seven sprouted. The plants were productive, lots of sweety drops that were excellent pickled.
Love Aji peppers, so was hapy to find this red variety. Great for hot sauces and pico de gallo. Quality seeds, good germination and very productive plants.
